Judgment

GAJENDRAGADKAR, J.

( 1 ) J. :this group of eight appeals which has been brought to this Court with a certificate issued by the Andhra Pradesh High Court, arises out of a partition suit filed by the plaintiff Viziaram Gajapathi Raj II against his younger brother Visweswar Gajapathi Raj, Defendant No. 1, his mother Vidyavathi Devi, Defendant No. 2, his uncle Sir Vijayanand Gajapathi Raj, Defendant No. 3, and his grnad-mother Lalitha Kumari Devi, Defendant No. 4. The parties to this litigation are members of the Vizianagaram family which owns a very large estate. This estate is impartible and devolves by primogeniture. The relevant genealogy of the family which is set out at the end of this judgment clearly brings out the relationship between the parties, and shows at a glance how the Vizianagaram Estate was held by different holders from time to time. Narayana Gajapathi Raj may be regarded as the founder of the family. His son who succeeded to the estate on the estate on the death of his father in 1845 can claim to be the real maker of the fortunes of this family. He managed the estate from 1845 to 1879 and during the course of his management he bought a large amount of proper