(Appeal against the judgment and decree, dated 19.12.1988, made in O.S.No.68 of 1982 (O.P.No.198 of 1981) on the file of the Court of Subordinate Judge, Coimbatore.)

The appeal is preferred against the judgment and decree dated 19.12.1988 made in O.S.No.68 of 1982 on the file of the Court of Subordinate Judge, Coimbatore. The appellants herein are the plaintiffs in the suit.

2. The appellants filed the suit seeking for a decree for cancellation of registered sale deed dated 11.5.1972 executed by the defendants 1 and 2 to the extent of the plaintiffs 9/16th share value and for partition of the suit properties into sixteen equal shares and allot nine shares to the plaintiffs and for costs. The case of the plaintiffs is that they are the sons of first defendant who as kartha of joint family was looking after the ancestral lands measuring a total extent of 13 acres and 28 cents in two villages and the lands were fertile yielding a net income of more than Rs.15,000/- per year which was sufficient for maintaining the family and the first defendant was leading a wayward, immoral life and did not look after the cultivation properly and the lands were leased to third defendant fo