Karuppannan vs Priya Alias Saranya - 2026 Supreme(Mad) 101

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2026 Supreme(Mad) 101

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
N.SATHISH KUMAR, R.SAKTHIVEL
Karuppannan – Appellant
Versus
Priya Alias Saranya – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellant : S. Kaithamalai Kumaran
For the Respondent: R. Raj Prasanna

JUDGMENT :

N. SATHISH KUMAR, J.

1. Challenging the decree and judgment of the Trial Court granting preliminary decree declaring that the plaintiff is entitled to 3/8^th share in the suit schedule properties and separate possession and also declaring that the settlement deed dated 27.01.2012 executed by Raja Gounder and third defendant in favour of the first defendant is null and void, the present appeal has been filed.

2. The parties herein are arrayed to as per their own ranking before the Trial Court. It is the case of the plaintiff that the plaintiff is the daughter of the first defendant. The second defendant is another daughter of the first defendant born through second marriage of the first defendant during the subsistence of the first marriage. The second defendant was having a brother named Raja had died intestate as bachelor. According to the plaintiff, the suit properties are ancestral properties of the plaintiff and the first defendant. The family geneology is as follows:-

3. According to the plaintiff, the first defendant's great grandfather Rasi Gounder has two sons namely Karuppagounder(first defendant grand father) and Sengodagounder. They jointly sold their ancestral pro