JUDGMENT

(Prayer: First Appeal is filed under Section 96 of the Code of Civil Procedure, against the Judgment and Decree of the Learned I-Additional District Judge, Salem in O.S.No.151 of 2011, dated 19.12.2014.)

1. The Appeal Suit is directed against the Judgment and decree dated 19.12.2014 in O.S. No.151 of 2011, on the file of the I-Additional Court, Salem, in and by which the suit was filed by the respondents herein, for partition of the suit property and to allot 2/10 share each to the plaintiffs was decreed by the Trial Court.

2. The case of the plaintiffs is that the first plaintiff/Sarasu, the second plaintiff/ Neela, late Subramani represented by his legal heirs the third and fourth plaintiffs, and the first defendant/Thangaraj, second defendant Periamma and along with other one more person namely Ammasi (since deceased as a bachelor), were the children of Periyanna Nadar and Pappathi Ammal. The suit property was purchased by Pappathi Ammal, by a registered Sale Deed dated 07.12.1967. The said Periyanna Nadar died and thereafter, Pappathi Ammal passed away on 03.06.1968. The suit property was in joint possession and enjoyment of the plaintiffs and the defendants 1 & 2. In the