JUDGMENT :

1. This second appeal is directed against the judgment and decree in A.S. No. 1 of 1996, on the file of the Principal District Judge, Nalgonda, through which, the judgment and decree, of the Court of the Junior Civil Judge, Nalgonda, in O.S. No. 1139 of 1991, was reversed. The appellants are the defendants in the suit. Their father and the 1st respondent are brothers, and the 2nd respondent is the son of the 1st respondent.

2. The father of the appellants, the 1st respondent and their two other brothers, constituted a Hindu Joint Family. They partitioned their lands about 30 years prior to the filing of the suit. One item of the landed property held by the joint family, was the land in Sy. No. 63, admeasuring Ac. 4.20 guntas, situated at Parapallygudem, Nalgonda, and it abutted the road on the northern side. In the partition, one acre, immediately abutting the road, and Ac. 2.20 guntas, on the southern side, was allotted to the father of the appellants. A piece of one acre, lying in between, fell to the share of the 1st respondent. In another piece of land, of Ac. 1.30 guntas, was in Sy. No. 49, at a little distance. The same parties got equal share in that land. About 15