(Second Appeal preferred against the judgment and decree dated 21.1.1999 in A.S.No. 206 of 1997 on the file of the learned District Judge, Coimbatore, confirming the judgment and decree, dated 19.12.1996, made in O.S.No: 1183 of 1982 on the file of the District Munsif, Coimbatore.)

The defendants 5 and 6, husband and wife, who lost their case before the trial court and the first appellate court are the appellants herein.

2. The brief facts which led to the filing of the suit in O.S.No:1183 of 1982 on the file of the District Munsif, Coimbatore, are as follows:-

The suit property in an extent of 8 cents and 116 sq.ft., within the Coimbatore Corporation limits is a house plot and the same belonged to the third defendant, Venugopal. By a registered sale deed dated 12.11.1970, the third defendant sold the suit site to the plaintiff Sakunthala for a sum of Rs.6,000/= and possession was also delivered. But the property tax arrears for two half years at Rs.67.40 per half year was in arrears payable by the vendor. Admittedly, the sale was not informed to the Municipality both by the purchaser (plaintiff) and by the vendor, the third defendant and consequently, no mutation of reco