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1923 Supreme(Mad) 109

OLDFIELD
Lakshmi Ammal Alias Pichai Ammal – Appellant
Versus
Alamelu Ammal – Respondent


JUDGMENT

Oldfield, J.

1. The facts are that the plaintiff sued her sister and also the latters husband, although he need not be further referred to, for partition and possession of a moiety of a certain property alleged to be stridhanam property of their mother. The suit eventually reached the stage of a preliminary decree, recognizing the plaintiffs right to half the property; and it is now pending for the passing of a final decree after ascertainment, by metes and bounds, of the plaintiffs share. The present proceedings, have arisen from the death of the plaintiffs sister. Thereon the plaintiff has moved in one application to have her sisters daughter, respondent, impleaded as legal representative of the deceased and in another for an amendment of the plaint to enable her to obtain a decree in these proceedings, not merely for the moiety of the property, horn which she alleges she was wrongfully excluded during her sisters lifetime, but also for the other moiety, on the ground that by survivorship she is entitled to the whole.

2. The lower appellate Court has granted both these applications; and we think that it was justified in granting the first. I he claimants right to a half sha

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