JUDGMENT :

Prayer: First Appeal is filed under Section 96 & Order 41 Rule 1 C.P.C., against the judgment and decree dated 30.10.2019 made in O.S.No.8721 of 2010 passed by the Learned XVIII Additional City Civil Judge, Chennai.

1. The Appeal is filed by the 7th defendant/Somasundram against the judgment and decree passed in O.S.No.8721 of 2010 (formerly C.S.No.845 of 2009 on the file of High Court, Madras, later renumbered and transferred to City Civil Court, Chennai).

Pleadings in nutshell:-

2. The suit laid by the plaintiffs on the premise that, the property morefully described under “A” schedule in the plaint is about 17 grounds and 400 sq.ft comprised in S.Nos.64 and 66, T.S.No.2, Block-22, Uroor Village, Chennai Corporation Division 137, Adyar. It is part of 23 acres and 70 cents of land held by M.A.Sreerangammal W/o.Srinivasa Iyengar. The said M.A.Sreerangammal got the property through a settlement deed from her husband on 09.12.1935. Some time before 1956, one Subbadrammal W/o.Krishna Naicker, was in possession of the property as a tenant putting up a construction in a portion of the land. She was permitted to sublet portion of the land. The landlady M.A.Sreerangammal ejectment s