JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Second Appeal has been filed under Section 100 of CPC against the Judgment and Decree dated 23.04.2008 passed in A.S.No.23 of 2007 on the file of the Subordinate Court, Dharapuram, reversing the Judgment and Decree dated 19.01.2007 passed in O.S.No.56 of 2001 on the file of the District Munsif Court, Dharapuram.)

1. Challenge in this second appeal is made to the judgment and decree dated 23.04.2008 passed in A.S.No.23 of 2007 on the file of the Subordinate Court, Dharapuram, reversing the judgment and decree dated 19.01.2007 passed in O.S.No.56 of 2001 on the file of the District Munsif Court, Dharapuram.

2. The second appeal has been preferred by the first defendant in O.S.No.56 of 2001.

3. Suit for partition.

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

5. Shorn of unnecessary details, according to the plaintiff, she and the defendants 1 to 4 are the children of the deceased Ramasamy Gounder and the suit properties are the self-acquired properties of the deceased Ramasamy Gounder and Ramasamy Gounder’s wife pre-deceased him and he died intestate in the year 1993 and after his demise, the suit properties had be