Aggrieved over the judgment and decree of the learned Principal District Fast Track Court - III, Tiruvallur declining the partition in respect of the item Nos.11 to 13 of the suit schedule properties, the present appeal came to be filed by the plaintiffs in the suit.

2. During the pendency of the appeal, the second plaintiff, namely the second appellant died. His legal heirs were brought on record as appellants 5 to 8 as per the Order of this Court in CMP. No. 1503 of 2014, dated 09.07.2004.

3. The parties are arrayed as per their ranking before the learned trial Court for the sake of convenience.

4. The brief facts of the plaintiffs case is as follows :

The plaintiffs and the defendants are sons and daughters of one Balarama Reddy. Item Nos. 1 to 10 and 14 and 15 described in the plaint schedule properties are ancestral properties of late Balarama Reddy. He was an agriculturist and out of the profits and the income derived from the ancestral properties, late Balarama Reddy purchased item Nos.11 to 13 by virtue of sale deeds dated 12.02.1962 and 05.04.1972 respectively. It is stated by the plaintiffs that the properties have been purchased in the name of the father out of the