ORDER:- The sixth defendant has filed this civil revision petition against the order of the Additional District Munsif, Erode, dismissing his application (I.A. No.3587 of 1969) filed under Sections 151, 152 and 153, C.P. Code, praying to amend the preliminary decree granted in O.S.853 of 1965, by giving him the right of partition and separate possession of his share.

2. One Rangammal instituted the suit against four defendants for partition and separate possession of her three-fourths share in the plaint-schedule property. On the 10th July 1969, a preliminary decree was passed directing division by metes and bounds of the plaint schedule property into 32 shares with reference to good and bad soil and directing allotment to the plaintiff of 24/32 share, and to the first defendant of 1/32 share. Subsequent to the preliminary decree, the plaintiff applied in I.A. No.884 of 1968 for impleading three persons, of whom the petitioner was one, as defendants 6 to 8, on the ground that they were understood to have a share in the property forming the subject-matter of the preliminary decree. This petition was ordered by the court below. Summons was issued to the sixth defendant the pe