Pandalai, J.

1. The dispute in this case is only about a direction given in the decree of the lower Court that the properties sold to defendant 5 must be brought to sale first and those sold to defendant 4 should be sold, if necessary, afterwards. The appellant is defendant 5 and defendant 4 is the real contesting respondent. The suit was brought upon a mortgage Ex. A dated 15th December 1913 executed by defendants 1 and 2 and one Narayanaswami since deceased mortgaging the properties mentioned in the plaint schedule to the plaintiff. On 5th January 1914 defendant 2 alone, one of the mortgagors mortgaged his interest in item 2 of the properties in the former mortgage to defendant 4 who, it has been held, took the mortgage without notice of the former one. Defendant 4 brought a suit upon his mortgage and after decree bought the mortgaged properties himself by private sale on 26th June 1917. Defendant 5 purchased defendant 1s rights in the mortgaged properties by a sale deed Ex. 3, dated 22nd June 1921. In this suit which was brought by the plaintiff to enforce his mortgage of 15th December 1913, defendants 4 and 5 were the chief contesting defendants. Defendant 4s contention