Judgment

B.K.NAYAK, J.

This appeal has been filed by the plaintiff challenging the judgment and part decree respectively dated 27.04.2004 and 12.05.2004 passed by the learned Civil Judge (Senior Division),Bhanjanagar in Title Suit No.9 of 2001.

2. The plaintiff-appellant filed the suit for partition of the suit properties and allotment of her legitimate share therein. Her case is that part of the suit properties stands recorded in the name of her mother, Sita Pradhan, which were her streedhan properties and the rest are the ancestral properties of her father, Prahalad. Prahalad and Sita had three daughters, namely, Chandrakala, Ahalya and Pramila (plaintiff) and had no male issue. Chandrakala is dead and defendant nos.3 and 2 respectively are her husband and daughter. Ahalya-defendant no.4 died during the pendency of the suit leaving behind defendant nos.4 (a) to 4(e), defendant no.7 and defendant no.1 as her sons and daughters. Defendant nos.5, 6, 8 and 9 are purchasers of some of the suit properties. It is averred by the plaintiff that during 1971, Prahalada executed an adoption deed in favour of defendant no.1 without the consent of his wife, Sita Pradhan. No adoption ceremony as