K. BABU
M. BASHEER RAWTHER (DIED) – Appellant
Versus
SALMA AMMAL (DIED) – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
K. BABU, J.
1. The Regular Second Appeal is directed against the judgment and decree passed by the Additional District Court, Mavellikkara in A.S. No. 138 of 1998.
2. The plaintiff is the appellant. Respondents 1 and 2 are the defendants.
3. Sri. Basheer Rawther, the original plaintiff, instituted O.S. No. 260 of 1994 before the Subordinate Judge’s Court, Mavellikkara, seeking partition of the plaint schedule property, which is 32 cents of land situated in Re-survey No. 436/3 of Choonakara village and a building therein. The Trial Court decreed the suit allowing partition of the plaint schedule property. The First Appellate Court reversed the judgment and decree passed by the Trial Court.
4. The late Sri. Basheer Rawther instituted the original suit seeking partition and allotment of 7/16th share in the plaint schedule property. The property originally belonged to Sri. Mytheen Picha Rawather, the late father of Sri. Basheer Rawther.
5. The plaintiff is the son born in the wedlock between Sri. Mytheen Picha Rawather and his first wife. Defendants 1 and 2, Salma Ammal and Sri. Nazar are the second wife and son, respectively, of Sri. Mytheen Picha Rawather.
The plaintiff pleaded t
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