JUDGMENT :

S.S. SUNDAR, J.

Prayer: Second Appeal preferred under 100 of CPC against the decree and judgment dated 20.12.2018 passed in A.S. No. 52/2018 on the file of the learned III Additional District Judge, Salem, confirming the decree and judgment dated 04.07.2018 passed in O.S. No. 328/2009 by the learned I Additional Subordinate Judge at Salem.

1. The plaintiff in the suit in O.S. No. 328/2009 on the file of the learned I Additional Subordinate Judge, Salem, is the appellant in the above Second Appeal.

2. The appellant herein filed the suit in O.S. No. 328/2009 for granting preliminary decree for partition and separate possession of 1/4th share of plaintiff in the suit properties. The suit is also for permanent injunction restraining the defendants from in any way alienating or auctioning the suit property to anyone.

3. It is the case of the plaintiff that the suit properties belonged the plaintiff 's grandfather by name Thiru. P. Palanisamy. The plaintiff described the suit properties as ancestral properties even though it is admitted that the properties were purchased in the name of the 1st defendant, the father of the plaintiff. It is the further case of the plaintiff that the