1. These appeals are arise out of the suit in O.S. No. 8173 of 2006. The plaintiffs 1 and 2 in the said suit are the appellants in A.S. No. 883 and defendants 1, 3 and 6 are the appellants in A.S. No. 718 of 2009.

2. The suit was filed by the plaintiffs seeking partition and separate possession of their 2/5 share in the suit property. The second plaintiff is a mentally ill person and the first plaintiff has been appointed as the guardian under Order 32 Rule 15 of C.P.C. According to the plaintiffs the suit 'A' Schedule property being a House belonged to one Sengalani Chettiar, who died on 19.01.1988, leaving behind his wife Kuppammal, the plaintiffs and the defendants 1 to 3, who are the children through Kuppammal. The said Kuppammal wife of Sengalani Chettiar also died on 25.08.2005. It is also further claimed that the first plaintiff who was employed had given up her job and has been looking after the second plaintiff and her mother since 1996. The plaintiff have also claimed that the said Sengalani Chettiar had left behind about 31 sovereigns of jewels shown as Schedule B to the plaint. According to the plaintiffs the jewels which where in the custody of the first plain