JUDGMENT

(Arising out of SLP(C) No. 4274-4275 of 2003)

With C.A. No. 1450 /2007 [@ S.L.P. (C) No. 4352 of 2003]

P.K. BALASUBRAMANYAN, J.

Leave granted.

1. The first of the Civil Appeals challenges the decree of the High Court of Karnakata in R.S.A. Nos. 472 and 435 of 1998, both arising out of O.S. No. 67 of 1975. The second challenges the decree in R.S.A. No. 865 of 2000, arising out of O.S. No. 800 of 1992. Both the suits were for redemption and the decrees passed therein are questioned in these appeals by the common plaintiff in them.

2.Three items of properties situated in Hubli City in the State of Karnataka are the subject matters of these two suits. Whereas in the first suit O.S. No. 67 of 1975, we are concerned with C.T.S. No. 1015/A/20 having an extent of 29.38 square yards, in O.S. No. 800 of 1992 we are concerned with C.T.S. No. 1015/A/19 having an extent of 14.7 square yards and 1028/2A having an extent of 75 square yards. As seen recited in a deed of partition dated 14.2.1961 entered into by three brothers belonging to a Hindu Mitakshara Family, the said items along with other items belonged to their joint family. But there is considerable dispute about the antecedents