JUDGMENT :

PRAYER : This Appeal Suit is filed under Order XLI, Rule 1 of CPC under Section 96 of the Code of Civil Procedure to set aside the judgment and decree dated 08.12.2016 passed by the learned Principal District Judge, Kancheepuram District at Chengalpattu in OS No.220 of 2010.

The present Appeal Suit has been instituted against the judgment and decree dated 08.12.2016 passed by the learned Principal District Judge, Kanchipuram District in OS No.220 of 2010.

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

3. The respondents/plaintiffs instituted suit for partition. For passing preliminary decree for partition of the plaintiffs' 2/8th share and for a direction against the appellant to render accounts in respect of rental income from the date of the suit till the date of separate possession and to pay the plaintiffs' 2/8th share in the rental income.

4. The plaint averments state that the mother of the first plaintiff is Rajamani Ammal and the first defendant is her son. Plaintiffs 2 to 5 are the grandchildren of Rajamani Ammal through her deceased first daughter Smt. Jayalakshmi. Smt. Rajamani Ammal had four daughters and a son. Smt. Rajamani