G. RAJASURIA, J.

1. This appeal is focussed as against the judgment and decree dated 20.2.1992 made in O.S. No. 3463 of 1985 on the file of the learned IV Assistant Judge, City Civil Court, Madras. For convenience sake, the parties are referred to here under according to the litigative status before the trial Court.

2. Broadly but briefly, narratively but precisely, the case of the plaintiff as stood exposited from the plaint could be portrayed thus:

The suit property, which is a plot and the house standing thereon was originally purchased during the year 1928 by the plaintiffs paternal grand father, viz., C.S. Subramania Achary and he made improvements in the suit property also. When he was 71 years old, he thought it necessary to make some provisions for his grand children; whereupon he executed the Exhibit A-1 Settlement Deed dated 9.2.1967 granting life estate in favour of his son, the first plaintiff Nagabushanam and absolute interest in favour of a his children and also reserving life estate in favour of himself and his wife Sovadambal Ammal; as on the date of emergence of Exhibit A-1, the children of Nagabushanam-the first plaintiff, were minors. It so happened that dur