Venkatasubba Rao, J.

1. One Rangaswami Chetty sold to the 1st defendant under Ex. I, dated 26th June, 1917, a strip of land about 102 feet long and 21 feet wide having a frontage on a public road out of a large block of building vacant site of which he was the owner. The portion purchased by the 1st defendant I shall call site No. A. The land exclusive of site No. A may, for the purposes of this appeal, be regarded as consisting of two parts : (1) The portion south of and contiguous to what was sold to the 1st defendant opening also on the public road (this 1 shall call site No. B); and (2) the bulk of the property at the back of the site No. A and the site No. B to which access from the road was over the said site No. B (this I shall call site No. C).

2. Three days subsequent to the sale of site No. A Rangaswami Chetty sold the remainder of the block, sites Nos. B and C, to certain persons from whom the present plaintiffs de-. rive title. On the site No. C the plaintiffs constructed a ginning factory. The 1st defendant, to start with, built a small house facing the road on her own site, site No. A, leaving the rest of her land at the back of her house as an open space. She t