The first defendant in the suit has preferred this appeal challenging the judgment and decree of the Subordinate Judge of Cuddalore dated 30.04.1990 made in O.S.No.154 of 1988.

2. The case of the plaintiffs as put before the Trial Court is, as under:

(i) The property described in the A Schedule originally belonged to one Logappa Chettiar and his brothers; Logappa Chettiar had two sons, namely, Kuppusami Chettiar and Krishnappa Chettiar; by a registered Partition Deed dated 25.01.1888, the suit property was partitioned between Kuppusami Chettiar and Krishnappa Chettiar; Krishnappa Chettiar pre-deceased his brother Kuppusami Chettiar, leaving behind his son Rangamannar Chettiar; Kuppusami Chettiar had no male issues and hence after his death, Krishnappa Chettiars son Rangamannar Chettiar had got the ancestral property by Survivorship; Rangamannar Chettiar had a son, by name, Srinivasa Chettiar and a daughter, by name, Alamelu; Srinivasa Chettiar had a son by name Pandurangan, the second plaintiff and the third plaintiff is his minor son; Alamelu, the third defendant was married to one Subramanian, the second defendant; out of their wedlock, four children namely, Rajamohan,