JUDGMENT :

1. This Regular Second Appeal is filed by defendants 1, 3 & 4 in a suit for partition.

2. The respondents 1 to 7 are the plaintiffs in the suit. During the pendency of this Regular Second Appeal, the 3rd respondent/3rd plaintiff died, and his legal representatives are impleaded as respondent Nos.8 to 10 as per order dated 19.12.2022 in I.A.No.3/2019.

3. The parties are referred according to their status before the Trial Court.

4. The plaintiffs filed the suit for partition of plaint A & B schedule properties belonged to Pappu Achari Narayanan Achari in equal shares of 1/9 each among the plaintiffs (7Nos) and the defendants 1 & 2, who are the children of Narayanan Achari who died on 16.11.1998 claiming that the plaint schedule properties belonged to Narayanan Achari as per Ext.A1 Deed; and that wife of Narayanan Achari predeceased Narayanan Achari.

5. According to the plaintiffs, both plaint A & B schedule properties are lying as a single compact plot; that Narayanan Achari and the first plaintiff constructed a house in the plaint schedule properties utilizing their funds; the plaint A schedule property has an extent of 4 cents with a building therein. Plaint B schedule proper