JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: First Appeal filed under Section 96 of C.P.C., against the judgment and Decree made in O.S.No.12 of 2005 on the file of the Additional District and Sessions Judge, (Fast Track Court), Tirupathur, Vellore District, dated 06.09.2010.)

1. Aggrieved over the judgment and Decree dated 06.09.2010 passed in O.S.No.12 of 2005 on the file of the Additional District and Sessions Judge, (Fast Track Court), Tirupathur, Vellore District, the defendants 1 to 6 and 8th defendant had filed the present First Appeal.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to as per their rankings in the trial court.

3. Suit for partition and mense profits.

4. The case of the plaintiffs in brief is that the suit properties comprised in item Nos.1 to 11 and 13 belonged to Murugesa Mudaliar ancestrally as well as by way of purchase. Murugesa Mudaliar died intestate during 1982. After his demise, the properties left behind him were enjoyed by his legal heirs and the first plaintiff is the wife of the deceased K.M. Kuppusamy and the plaintiffs 2 to 4 are the children of the deceased K.M. Kuppusamy. K.M. Kuppusamy is the son of the deceased Murugesa Mudaliar. K.M. Kuppusamy died on 07.11.1