F.M. IBRAHIM KALIFULLA, J.

( 1 ) THIS Civil revision Petition has been preferred against the judgment and decree made in C. M. A. 112 of 1996 dated 5. 8. 1998 by the II Additional district Judge, Trichirapalli, setting aside the decretal order and order of the Principal Subordinate judge, Trichirapalli dated 8. 11. 1996 passed in I. A. No. 828 of 1996 in O. S. No. 499 of 1996.

( 2 ) THE first petitioner is a partnership firm represented by the second petitioner in his capacity as its Managing Partner and the three other petitioners' claim to be the partners of the first petitioner firm On a perusal of the pleadings, the following facts emerge. The first petitioner consisted of thirteen partners and a suit came to be laid at the instance of the petitioners in O. S. 499 of 1996 against the rest of the partners for a declaration to declare as null and void, the purported removal of the second petitioner from the position and status as managing Partner of the first petitioner firm by defendants 2 to 10 and consequential relief of permanent injunction against them to 'restrain them from trespassing into the suit firm and from interfering in any manner with the running of th