Judgement

In this case the suit was brought by the Appellant in the Court of the Principal Sudder Ameen at

11 M.I.A. 75 ( 1866- 1867) Appovier Alias Seetaramier V. Rama Subba Aiyan 93

Tinnevelly. The object of the suit was to establish his claim, as a member of an undivided Hindoo family, to a moiety by right of inheritance of the family property, and to eject three of the Defendants (the present Respondents) from the three several divided shares which they held of such property, under a deed of partition made in the year 1834, to which deed the Appellant was a party.

The validity of the partition made in pursuance of this deed was the main question in the suit. The Appellant sought to invalidate it, principally on the ground that such deed of division being only partially acted on was, therefore, wholly void ; that certain adoptions, by which three of the parceners became members of the family when undivided, were contrary to Hindoo law ; that the Appellant was a minor at the date of that partition ; and in the event of those points being decided in favour of the Appellant, he supported his claim to a moiety of the property by relying on a partition alleged to have been made in th