JUDGMENT.-The plaintiff in O.S.No. 36 of 1968 in the file of the Court of the Subordinate Judge of Chidambaram, is the appellant herein. The suit was instituted by him for partition and separate possession of his half share in the suit properties which consist of five items and for recovery of his share of income from items 4 and 5 of the plaint A schedule properties. Since the plaintiff has been granted a decree in respect of items 2 to 5, the appeal is confined only to item 1, a residentital house in Vridachalam. There were two brothers, Krishnaswami Iyer and Kuppuswami Iyer. Krishnaswami Iyer, in his turn, had two sons, the appellant herein and one Dandapani Iyer, who died on 18th October, 1963 whose widow is the first respondent, whose sons are respondents 3 and 6, whose daughters are respondents, 3, 4, 5 and 7 and whose grandson through a predeceased daughter is the eighth respondent. Respondents 9 and 10 are strangers claiming some interest in the property. As far as item 1 of the A schedule property is concerned, the case of the plaintiff was that Dandapani Iyer and Krishnaswami Iyer constituted a joint family, that under the original of Exhibit A-4, dated 15th May, 1963 cer

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