1. The details as regards the suits, appeals and the second appeals therefrom are given in a tabular form below:

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2. The plaintiff in O.S.No.3551 of 1983 on the file of the 13th Assistant City Civil Judge, Madras is the defendant in O.S.No.6351 of 1984 is the defendant in O.S.No.3551 of 1983. The 1st plaintiff in O.S.No.6351 of 1984 Muthukrishnan who was not a party in O.S.No.3551 of 1982 and who was the first plaintiff in all the other suits died pending the suits and his legal representatives were brought on record as plaintiffs 3 to 8 in the said suits. Except in S.A.No.950 of 1993, where Murugesan alone is the appellant, in the other second appeals Murugesan and the legal representatives of Muthukrishnan are the appellants.

3. In the course of this discussion, depending on the context the parties will be referred to either by their names, Kuppammal, Muthukrishnan, Murugesan or by their ranks in the suits. There are two schedules A and B in the suits ruled by the Muthukrishnan and Murugesan. A-Schedule is the same in all the suits while the B-Schedule in each suit is the portion alleged to have been encroached by the respective defendants.

4. The earliest sui