JUDGMENT :

The unsuccessful defendant No.1 Gankidi Venkata Krishna Reddy who suffered a reversing judgment and decree in A.S.No.72 of 1997 on the file of the Chairman, Land Reforms Appellate Tribunal-Cum-III Additional Sessions Judge at Karimanagar wherein the judgment and decree made in O.S. No.1983 of 1991 on the file of Principal District Munsif at Karimnagar had been reversed is the appellant.

2. The first respondent Gankidi Venkata Ranga Reddy, the father of the appellant-first defendant and also Gankidi Ravinder Reddy, the second defendant, as plaintiff instituted the suit O.S. No.1983 of 1991 on the file of Principal District Munsif for partition and separate possession for one third share in the plaint A, B and C schedule properties, and the Court of first instance by judgment dated 14-11-1997 had dismissed the suit. Aggrieved by the same, the unsuccessful plaintiff had carried the matter by way of an Appeal A.S. No.72 of 1997 on the file of Chairman, Land Reforms Appellate Tribunal-cum-III Additional Sessions Judge at Karimnagar, and the Appellate Court by judgment dated 6-3-2000 had reversed the judgment and decree of the Court of first instance, and granted a decree for p