JUDGMENT :- These appeals are directed against the judgment dated 27th April, 1987 passed by the Madras High Court in A.S. No. 324 of 1981 and Tr. A.S. No. 789/82. The plaintiff-respondent-Chakravahthi filed O.S. No. 7/1977, inter alia, contending that the partition effected in 1969 between the father of the said plaintiff and three sisters of his father being defendants 1, 2 and 3 were inequitable and invalid and in any event the interest of the plaintiff who was in mothers womb had not been safeguarded. The defendants 1, 2 and 3 who are appellants in this Court, however, contended that although the document in question was mentioned as a deed of partition the same was in reality a deed of family arrangement and such family arrangement was legal and binding. It was also contended that there had not been inequitable distribution of the property to the parties under such deed of family arrangement.

2. The trial Court accepted the contentions made by the defendants and came to the finding that the alleged deed of partition was in fact a deed of family arrangement and indicating reasons it also came to the finding that there had not been no inequitable distribution by the said family a