Aggrieved by the concurrent findings rendered by both the Trial Court and the First Appellate Court and the finding rendered by the Land Tribunal under two references under Section 125 of the Kerala Land Reforms Act (for short the KLR Act), the defendants 2 and 3 came up with this appeal. The subject matter of the suit comes to 25 cents of land, which is scheduled as 'A' schedule, and a shed situated therein, separately scheduled as 'B' schedule. The suit is one for recovery of property based on title. Admittedly, the plaintiff is the owner of the property. The claim of defendants is that from the plaintiff's predecessor, one Kunhikutty, the defendants predecessor, their father Govindan, obtained the property on an oral lease of the year 1953. According to defendants, it was a cultivating tenancy and as such they are entitled to fixity of tenure over the property. Inter alia it was also contended that they are entitled to kudikidappu right over the property. Based on the written statement submitted by the defendants there was a first reference to the Land Tribunal under Section 125 of the KLR Act to adjudicate their question of fixity of tenure claimed by the
