Sadasiva Aiyar, J.

1. These are appeals against the order of the Subordinate Judge of Kumbakonam appointing a Receiver for the lands belonging to Pasupatheswara Swami temple near Kumbakonam. The plaintiff and the defendants NOs. 1 to 3 are the four hereditary trustees of the temple. The defendants Nos. 4, 5 and 6 have each executed a separate registered rent-deed in favour of the plaintiff and the defendants Nos. 1 to 3 jointly; each of the former has thus become the sole lessee of one set of lands belonging to the temple. The plaintiff alleges in his plaint that these leases were really taken for the benefit of the defendants Nos, 1, 2 and 3 respectively by their creatures defendants Nos. 4, 5 and 6; that ha did not consent to accept the rent-deeds which stand in his name also ; that defendants Nos. 4, 5 and 6 are persons of no status or property, and that the leases should be avoided as they were given by the defendants Nos. 1 to 3 in breach of trust. The leases provided for payment of installments of paddy rent in the month of November (after the Kuravai harvest), and in the months between January and April (after the Samba harvest), a small sum in cash being also payable