This appeal is focussed as against the judgment and decree in O.S.No.57 of 1985 dated 212. 1989 passed by the learned Subordinate Judge, Chengleput. For convenience sake, the parties are referred to here under according to their litigative status before the trial Court.

2. Tersely and briefly, the case of the plaintiff as stood exposited from the plaint could be narrated thus;

The deceased V.P. Venkatesan, had two wives namely Jayammal, the first defendant herein and one Thulukkanammal. Through his first wife he had one son the second defendant and two daughters, the third and the fourth defendants. Through his second wife he had five children namely the plaintiffs 1 and 5 his sons and the plaintiffs 2 to 4 his daughters. In fact the marriage of V.P.Venkatesan with Thulukkanammal took place in the year 1955 in Syuamariyathai form in Singaperumal Koil in the presence of the villagers. From that time onwards V.P. Venkatesan and Thulukkanammal started living together till his death on 26.09.1985. The properties described in the schedule of the plaint belong to the joint family of V.P. Venkatesan and his sons. Some of those properties are ancestral properties which V.P. Venk