Common Judgment

This appeal is focussed as against the judgment and decree dated 27. 1994 passed in O.S.No.226 of 1983 by the I Additional Subordinate Judge, Erode.

2. Niggard and bereft of details, the facts giving rise to the filing of the suit, as stood exposited from the plaint could be set out thus:

.(a) The deceased Nachi Muthu Gounder had two sons and two daughters, namely, Subbanna Gounder(D1), Kolandasamy Gounder(D2), Palaniammal and Nachayammal (P2).

.(b) Subbanna Gounder(D1) died on 5. 1990 leaving behind Kannammal(D4), Sivagami (D5), Bakkialakshmi(D6) as his legal heirs. The said Palaniammal died leaving behind her sons the first plaintiff-Vembanna Gounder as her legal heir. Kolandasamy Gounder/D2s son is K.Chandrasekaran/D3.

.(c) The A scheduled properties are admittedly the joint family properties of the said family. The B scheduled properties are the self-acquired properties of the deceased Nachimuthu Gounder. Consequent upon the death of Nachimuthu Gounder on 6. 1980, his two daughters also along with his sons, became entitled to their respective shares as his legal heirs, in the suit properties. However, the defendants, who are the male descendants of