KRISHNA RAO, J. :- This is an appeal by the plaintiff from the judgment and decree of the Subordinate Judge, Tenali, dismissing O. S. No. 7 of 1948 a suit for partition and recovery of possession of a half share in 16 items of immoveable properties, which had been alienated by the plaintiffs father. The relationship between the main parties to the suit will be conveniently seen from the following genealogical table :

The plaintiff is the son of the first defendant and was born on 12th January, 1927. The properties were part of the properties acquired for the family by the first defendants senior paternal uncle Panakalu, except item 15 which was purchased by defendants 1 and 2 under Exhibit A-8 dated 4th October, 1926. Panakalu and the first defendants father Gangayya were undivided brothers belonging to the community of weavers and living at Addepalli. Gangayya died first in or about 1898 and Panakalu died issueless about ten years later in October, 1908.

The family properties then devolved on the three sons of Gangayya, viz., one Adisubrahmanyam, the second defendant Venkatalingam and the first defendant Ramalingam. In 1921, they divided the properties and the plaint schedu