P. VADAMALAI
Gurusamy – Appellant
Versus
Meenakshi Co-operative Building Society Ltd. – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
P. Vadamalai, J.
1. This Second Appeal is preferred against the judgment and decree dated 23.04.2015 passed in A.S. No. 21 of 2013 on the file of the learned IV Additional District Judge, Madurai, confirming the judgment and decree dated 21.01.2013 passed in O.S. No. 126 of 2007 on the file of the learned I Additional Sub Judge, Madurai.
2. The appellants are the defendants and the respondent is a plaintiff in O.S. No. 126 of 2007 on the file of the I Additional Sub Court, Madurai. The respondent/plaintiff filed the suit for declaration that the plaintiff is the absolute owner of the suit property and for permanent injunction restraining the defendants from interfering with the possession of the suit property by the plaintiff in alternative directing the defendants to hand over possession of the suit property to the plaintiff.
3. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred as plaintiff and defendants as arrayed in O.S. No. 126 of 2007 on the file of the I Additional Sub Court, Madurai.
4. Case of the plaintiff:
The plaintiff is the A.1362 Meenakshi Cooperative Building Society Limited, which was registered in the year 1939 and at present it is registered under the Ta
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