ANANTANARAYANA AYYAR, J.

( 1 ) THIS is an appeal against the Judgment and Decree of the Subordinate Judge, Visakhapatnam, in O. S. No. 19 of 1956 on his file. One Makireddi Venkanna had two sons. The younger son is the first defendant. The elder son was one Appanna who was the husband of the third defendant by whom he begot his only son Makireddi Nookaraju, the plaintiff.

( 2 ) VEKANNA also had two daughters, namely, Narayanamma (D. W. 1) and Rajamma. Rajamma had a daughter Simhachalam by her first husband. Simhachalam is the wife of the first defendant. Rajamma s second husband is Pothuraju (D. W. 2 ). Rajamma is now dead. The other daughter, Narayanamma (D. W. 1) became a widow when she was very young in about 1937 and from then she was living in her father s village. Her father, Venkanna, purchased for her the land, which is item 11 of the plaint A schedule, through Exhibit B-g, dated 22nd September, 1926. Appanna was a man of subnormal intelligence and he died in or about 1947. Venkanna died a few months thereafter.

( 3 ) MAKIREDDI Nookaraju, as sole plaintiff, filed O. S. No. 19 of 1956 for partition of the properties of plaint A and B schedule into two equal shares

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