JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Second Appeal filed under Section 100 of the Civil Procedure Code against the judgment and decree in A.S. No.356/2004 dated 17.02.2005 on the file of II Additional Judge, City Civil Court, Chennai and also against the judgment and decree in O.S.No. 805/97 dated 30.09.2003 on the file of the III Assistant Judge, City Civil Court, Chennai.)

1. Challenge in this second appeal is made to the judgment and decree dated 17.02.2005 passed in A.S. No.356/2004 on the file of II Additional Judge, City Civil Court, Chennai confirming the judgment and decree dated 30.09.2003 passed in O.S.No. 805/97 on the file of the III Assistant Judge, City Civil Court, Chennai.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to as per their ranking in the trial court.

3. The defendants in O.S. No.805 of 1997 are the appellants in the Second Appeal.

4. Suit for Permanent Injunction.

5. Shorn of unnecessary details, the case of the plaintiff, in brief, is that the Madurai Veeran temple formerly known as Sri Meenakshi Amman temple situated at No.11, Madurai Veeran Street, T.Nagar, Madras 600 017 was founded and established by one Bhoopathy Naicker, the paternal grand father of the plaint