Heard Shri Aditya B Sondhi, learned Senior Advocate appearing for the Counsel for the appellant and Shri Vivek Reddy, learned Senior Advocate appearing for the Counsel for the respondents.

2. This is an appeal by the defendant.

3. The parties are referred to by their rank before the trial court for the sake of convenience.

4. It was the case of the plaintiffs that the original plaintiff was the absolute owner of the suit schedule property, a building on site bearing No.12/2, Old Site No.13, formed in land bearing Survey No.73, New Guddadahalli, Kempapura Agrahara, now called as Kuvempunagara, I Main Road, B Street, Corporation Division No.33, Bangalore, measuring east to west 30 feet and South to north 60 feet. The plaintiff is said to have purchased the same under a registered sale deed dated 5.5.1956 from one Shri N. Anjanee Rao Sindhe. It was claimed that at the time of purchase of the suit schedule property, the western boundary was a house site bearing No.14, but however, subsequently, the same had been converted into a road and was being used as such since several ye