JUDGMENT :

DR.ANITA SUMANTH, J.

PRAYER :- Appeal Suit - filed under Section 96 with Order 41 Rule 1 of CPC, to set aside the judgment and decree dated 22.04.2013 in O.S.No. 81 of 2012 on the file of the Principal District Judge, Tiruchirappalli and allow this appeal with the costs.

The appellant was the plaintiff in O.S.No.81 of 2012 filed seeking relief of partition and separate possession of her half share in the properties at New Ward – D, Block No.40, T.S.No.153, Old Municipal Ward No.2, Block No.39, T.S.No.210 Vamadam Palla Street, Thennur, Trichirapalli (in short ‘suit property’) by metes and bounds.

2. The submissions of the appellant represented by Mr.H.Lakshmi Shankar are as follows. The parties had been married on 30.08.1990 and the appellant had secured employment in the passport office in 1993. The suit property had been purchased on 10.12.1997 under document No.3750 of 1997. The registration of the document was admittedly in the name of the defendant only and it is the appellant’s case that she had contributed equally towards the cost of the same.

3. The couple had co