The Order of the Court was as follows :

The petitioners/plaintiffs 2 to 4 aggrieved by the order passed by the court below, allowing the application filed by the first defendant/first respondent in I.A. No. 106 of 1998 in O.S. No. 249 of 1994 on the file of the Sub-Court, Pudukkottai, have filed the above revision in C.R.P. No. 2090 of 1998.

2. The plaintiffs filed an application in I.A. No. 118 of 1998 in O.S. No. 249 of 1994 on the file of Sub-Court, Pudukkottai, to accept the reply statement in the suit which was rejected by the court below, and, aggrieved against the same, they have filed another revision in C.R.P. No. 2091 of 1998.

3. The plaintiffs filed the said suit seeking a decree for partition of the suit properties into six equal shares by metes and bounds. According to the plaintiffs, the suit properties are the self-acquired properties of one Subramania Pillai who died on 20-11-1993, leaving his wife, the first plaintiff, the second plaintiff, the defendants 1 and 2 as his legal heirs. The first plaintiff also died on 17-7-1994 intestate. According to the plaintiffs, 2 to 4 and the defendants 1 to 3 are her heirs. The defendants 1 and 2 contested the suit by