L. NARASIMHA REDDY, J.

( 1 ) THE plaintiff in O. S. No. 165 of 1987 is the appellant. He filed the suit against his younger brother, the sole defendant, for the relief of partition and separate possession of the suit schedule properties. The defendant died during the pendency of the appeal. His LRs. are brought on record. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to, as arrayed in the suit.

( 2 ) IN brief, the plea of the plaintiff was that, their father late Subba Reddy, was a resident of Kodavalur and died in the year 1932, when the plaintiff and defendant were aged about 9 and 6 years, respectively. He pleaded that their father owned a rice mill; share in another rice mill and other immovable properties, and after his death, their mother, Rangamma, along with himself and his brother, shifted to nellore and resided in the house of rangamma s grand-mother. It is his case that with the money and other resources left by his father, Rangamma, purchased items 2 and 3 of the suit schedule in the name of himself and his brother, and item no. 4, in her name. He alleged that item no. 1 of the suit schedule, a residential house, which belonged to the grand-mother of rangamma, wa

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