Ramaprasada Rao, J.-Defendants 2, 5, 6 and 7 in O.S. No. 109 of 1963 on the file of the Court of the Subordinate Judge, Chingleput, are the appellants. The suit was laid for partition and allotment of plaintiff’s one-fourth share in the properties described in schedules B to 6 in the plaint.

2. The plaintiff’s case is as follows: One Devaraja Chettiar had four sons, the plaintiff and defendants 1 to 3. He is said to have carried on a business in coconuts and plantains in Tiruvallur town, with the income from the family properties. The plaintiff has set out in schedule B to the plaint all such joint family properties in which the appellants and respondents 1 to 3 as members of the same, are entitled to a share. It is not disputed that Devaraja Chettiar, by himself inherited certain properties, which became joint family properties, of the plaintiff and respondents 1 to 3 after the demise of Devaraja Chettiar. It is also said that certain properties were bequeathed to plaintiff and respondents 1 to 3 under a Will Exhibit A-1 dated 12th August, 1940, whereby one Masi Ammal, paternal grandmother of the plaintiff bequeathed certain properties of hers to the sons of Devaraja Chettiar. The

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