JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Second Appeal is filed under Section 100 of the Code of Civil Procedure, to set aside the judgment and decree dated 22.03.2007 made in A.S.No.75 of 2006 on the file of the Subordinate Court, Nilgiris, Uthagamandalam, confirming the judgment and decree dated 27.12.2005 made in O.S.No.296 of 1995 on the file of the District Munsif Court, Coonoor.)

1. This second appeal is filed at the instance of the second defendant (since deceased). The respondents 2 to 4 are the defendants before the trial Court.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties will be referred to according to their litigative status before the Trial Court.

The brief facts which give rise to the instant Second Appeal are as follows:

3. According to the plaintiff, she is the wife of one late John Thaskood and that their marriage was solemnized as per Christian rites and customs on 22.02.1984 and the marriage was registered at the Office of the Marriage Registrar, Ootacamund. Out of the wedlock, the plaintiff has begotten a child on 16.07.1988 by name Vinoth Thaskood and that the child was baptized on 02.09.2019. While so, John Thaskood died on 21.12.1990 leaving behind the plaintiff and his so