( 1 ) DEFENDANTS 3 to 5 have preferred this appeal against the judgment and decree of the learned Additional Subordinate Judge, Chittoor in O. S. No. 50/68 in a suit for partition of the plaint schedule properties into two equal shares and for allotment of one such share to. he plaintiffs, who are the purchasers of the property from defendants 3 to 5.

( 2 ) THE plaint allegations in brief are that the properties belong to the joint family of Pujari Venkata Reddy (great grand father of defendants 3 to 5) narayana Reddy (the grand father of defendants I and 2) and Chinna Reddy ; that the relationship of the parties is shown in the geneological Tree appended to the plaint ; that Chinna Reddy s branch having become extinct, defendants 1 and 2 representing the branch of narayana Reddy have one share ; that defendants 3 to 5, who represent the branch of Venkata Reddy, are entitled to the remaining half share, that during the childhood of defendants 3 to 5, their mother went to Dhanojavaripalle to manage the properties got from her father; that defendants 3 to 5 have been coming to their ancestral village to help defendants 1 and 2 at 5 the time of harvest and they have been taking their

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