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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
P.B.BALAJI
Ravikumar – Appellant
Versus
N.R. Pachamuthu – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
P.B.BALAJI, J.
The plaintiffs, aggrieved by dismissal of O.S. No.231 of 2019, on the file of the 1st Additional District Court, Namakkal, are the appellants.
2. I have heard Mr.S.Kalyanaraman, for Ms.G.Ramya, learned counsel for the appellants and Mr.C.Jagadish, learned counsel for the respondents.
3. PLEADINGS:-
(a) Plaint in brief:-
The Plaintiffs 1 and 2 are brothers and the third plaintiff is their mother. The father of the plaintiffs 1 and 2 and the husband of the third plaintiff, late Sivalingam and the first defendant have entered into a partition on 15.02.1993. The said partition deed was never acted upon. The plaintiffs 1 and 2 were minors on the date of execution of the said partition deed. They are not bound by the said partition deed, which has come to their knowledge only now. The said partition deed cannot infringe upon the rights of the plaintiffs 1 and 2. On the date of the partition deed, both the plaintiffs 1 and 2 were already born and they were proper and necessary parties to the partition deed. Their father Sivalingam, was educated and he took up employment and was not therefore, having the time to look into the agricultural operations. Taking advantage of
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