Ramesam, J.

1. This is an appeal by the plaintiff against the decree of our brother, Kumaraswami Sastri, J., in C.S. No. 192 of 24 which was a suit brought by the plaintiff for a declaration of his hereditary right to the management of the temple of Sri Vittalnathjee in Ekambareswar Agraharam, Madras, and that the defendant has no right to cancel the power-of-attorney executed by him in favour of the plaintiff and for an injunction. The learned Judge dismissed the suit and the plaintiff appeals.

2. The facts of the case may be thus stated: In the year 1896 one Ganga Bai, widow of the plaintiffs paternal grandfathers brother, built a temple for Sri Vittalnathjee in Ekambareswar Agraharam and in 1900 she executed a Bhot Patra (Ex. A) in which she mentions the fact of her having built the temple in 1896 and got the idols of Sri Vittalnathjee and Sri Swaminijee installed therein and of having set apart a sum of Rs. 40,000 for the seva, puja, utsavams and other festivals of the deities and for the salaries of the temple servants. The sum was left with the plaintiffs father, Krishnadoss Balamukundoss of Giridoss Govindoss Company of Madras and he was to pay monthly a sum of Rs. 200