Ramaprasada Rao, J. -The second defendant is the appellant in this appeal Kuppanna Gounder had three sons C. K. Krishnan, the eldest, C. K. Shanmugham, the second and C. K. Kandavel, the third and the youngest. His wife is one Rukkammal. The second son, C. K. Shanmugham, filed the present action impleading his mother Rukkammal as the first defendant, his elder brother C.K. Krishnan as the second defendant and his younger brother C. K. Kandavel as the third defendant, for partition of the joint family properties into four shares and to allot one such share to the plaintiff. He also sought for an account as regards the income from items 3, 4 and 5 of the plaint schedule properties and for a direction as against the second defendant to pay the mesne profits from the date of the suit till delivery of possession. In the schedule to the plaint, he included seven items of properties, the first being the residential house bearing Door No. 21, Rangai Goundar Street, Coimbatore, the second, which was originally a house-site but now bearing Door No. 11/7 Ponnurangam Road, R. S. Puram, Coimbatore, the third, Palaniandavar Rice Mills situate in the family house No. 21, Rangai Goundar Street, th

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