Judgments: Govinda Menon J.-This is an appeal against the decree and judgment of the Subordinate Judge of Tiruchirapalli in a suit for partition and separate possession of a half share in the properties comprised in schedules A, A-1, B,C,F.F-1 and F-2 of the Plaint and for possession of the properties comprised in schedules D and E or for Rs.1,996 being their value and for future mesne profits at Rs.4,000 per annum and decreed in part. The appellants in this appeal are defendants 1 and 5. The plaintiff is the widow of one Subbaraya Aiyar who was the son of the first defendant, L. Bapu Iyer. Defendant No. 2 is the daughter of Bappu Ayyar while defendants 3 and 4 are the minor sons of the second defendant. The 5th defendant Seethalakshmi Ammal is another daughter of the first defendant. At the time of death of Subbaraya Aiyar on 24th August, 1947, Bappu Ayyar and his son Subbaraya Iyer were the sole undivided members of a joint Hindu family the second defendant and the fifth defendant having been married out of their family sometime prior to that. The plaintiff was married to Subbaraya Aiyar as his third wife in 1940. She, on the strength of the Hindu Women’s Right to Property (Exten

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