ANANTANARAYANAN, J. :- In a suit for partition tried before the learned Sub-ordinate Judge of Erode (U. S. No. 87 of 1956), the following were the relationships between the parties, which writ also explain the array of the parties before us in the respective appeals. There was a certain Marimutnu Pillai who had two wives, the junior wife being the second defendant in the suit by the senior wife, he lad two sons, the first defendant and) one Rajagopala Pillai, who is dead, the husband of the third defendant. The plaintiff is the son by the junior wife, and defendants 4 and 5 are the daughters of the third defendant and Rajagopala Pillai aforesaid. The sixth defendant, who is a party with significant claims relative only to certain properties cl. D schedule, is alleged to be the permanently Kept mistress of the first defendant. Defendants 7 to 116 ware impleaded as tenants of B schedule properties, and with most of those parties we are not now concerned. But we might briefly note that defendants 102 and 115 are me sons of the first defendant.

2. App. No. 322 of 1959 has bean preferred by defendants 102 and 115, the sons of the first defendant earlier referred to, App. No. 280