The additional third defendant in O.S.No.522 of 1997 on the file of the Sub Court, Thrissur is the appellant.

2. Respondents 1 and 2 filed the suit referred to above for setting aside Ext.A2 sale deed in respect of 25 cents of the property out of the plaint schedule property and for recovery of possession of the said property with mesne profits from the defendant. The plaintiffs are the younger sisters of the defendant. The plaint schedule property was bequeathed to them and to their stepmother Parukutty by their father late Iyyer as per Ext.A2 will with a stipulation that if any one of them dies, the remaining will take the property absolutely. The case of the plaintiffs is that the step-mother of the plaintiffs Parukutty died during 1980 and that on the death of Parukutty, the defendant approached the plaintiffs and represented that the relatives of their stepmother would attempt to get the properties of their father and to prevent the same, a document needs to be executed by them. According to the plaintiffs, on the basis of the said representation, the plaintiffs have put their signatures on 23.1.981 in Ext.A1 document prepared by the defendant under the impression that