JUDGMENT :

(Appeal Suit is preferred under Section 96 of the Code of Civil Procedure against the order and decree dated 07.11.2016 made in O.S.No.13 of 2014 on the file of the learned District Judge, District Court No.II, Kancheepuram.)

The judgment and decree dated 07.11.2016 passed by the learned District Judge, District Court No. II, Kancheepuram in Original Suit No.13 of 2014, is under challenge in the present appeal suit.

2. The appellant in the appeal suit is the defendant in the suit and the respondents in the appeal suit are the plaintiffs in the suit.

3. For the sake of convenience, the ranking of the parties in the appeal suit would be referred to as per their ranks in the Trial Court.

4. The original suit was instituted by the appellant and the relationship between the parties to the original suit are not disputed. The appellant as well as the respondents are brother and sisters and the suit is instituted for partition of the suit schedule properties.

5. The brief facts set out in the plaint before the Trial Court are that the plaintiffs and the defendant are son and daughters of one Kannan and Dhanabakkiam. The father Kannan died intestate on 23.08.1996 and the mother also di