The plaintiffs are the appellants in the above second appeal. The first appellant/ first plaintiff was a minor who was represented by the mother and natural guardian, the second plaintiff/ second appellant. The plaintiffs 1 and 2 are the son and wife of the first defendant. Defendants 1 and 2 are brothers. The third defendant is the wife of the second defendant and the fourth defendant is said to be an alienee of item No. 12 in the ‘A’ Schedule properties. The claim of the plaintiffs before the trial court was that most of the items of properties described in ‘A’ Schedule are the ancestral properties of the family and the rest of the properties were acquired under a registered will said to have been executed by Rengasamy Reddiar the maternal grandfather of defendants 1 and 2 in favour of the father, mother and step mother of defendants 1 and 2 and also acquired by purchases and mortgage, in the name of the second defendant and third defendant respectively. It is the case of the plaintiffs that all such properties not originally belonging to the ancestral family were also thrown into the common hotchpot and they were enjoying all the A schedule properties as joint family p