Samudrala Govindarajulu, J.

1. The second appeal is filed by the defendants and the cross objections herein are filed by the plaintiffs. In the trial Court, the sole plaintiff who died pending the suit, filed the suit for partition by way of dividing the plaint schedule property of Ac. 13-75 cents in S. No. 48 of Ponnagallu village, Puttur Taluk, Chittoor District into' 2 bits of Ac. 12-24 cents on the Southern side and Ac. 1-51 cents on Northern side and allotting southern Ac. 12-24 cents to the plaintiff and for delivery of the same. It is the plaintiff's case that the plaint schedule property jointly belongs to the plaintiff Kosuri Subbaraju and his brother-in-law Konduri Venkata Swamy Raju and that the 1st defendant is wife and the defendants 2 to 10 are children of Late Venkata Swamy Raju and that the plaintiff is entitled to southern Ac. 12-24 cents out of the suit land. On the other hand, the defendants contend that the schedule property never jointly belonged to the 1st plaintiff and Venkata Swamy Raju and that the 1st plaintiff sold away the suit land to Venkata Swamy Raju under Ex. B-1 registered sale deed dated 27.06.1919 and that since then Venkata Swamy Raju and