( 1 ) THIS appeal is by the appellant, who was 1st defendant in o. S. No. 20/1986 on the file of the Court of Civil Judge at Dharwad, challenging the judgment and decree passed therein by which the said suit brought by the 1st respondent, who was plaintiff therein, has been decreed in part holding her as owner of land in Block no. 111/1 measuring 4 acres 9 guntas of Haletegur Village and entitled to its possession, though dismissed the suit for other reliefs claimed and also for land in Block No. 111/2 covered by sale deed dated 24. 4. 1972, and also against the judgment and decree passed in R. A. No. 20/1990 on the file of the Court of II Addl. District Judge at Dharwad, since the judgment and decree passed by the Trial court came to be affirmed by the said Ist Appellate Court.

( 2 ) FOR the sake of convenience, the parties are referred hereafter as shown in the impugned judgment and decree of the trial Court, i. e, plaintiff and defendants.

( 3 ) THE brief facts, which gave rise to the present appeal, are: the plaintiff, who is the wife of 2nd defendant, claiming as the owner and possessor of the two suit lands on the basis of inheritance through her mother, brought su