JUDGMENT :

D.Dash, J.

The Appellants, by filing this Appeal under Section 100 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (for short, ‘the Code’), have assailed the judgment and preliminary decree dated 25th February, 2021 & 15th March, 2021 respectively passed by the learned District Judge, Jagatsinghpur in R.F.A. No.59 of 2004.

The Respondent No.1, as the sole Plaintiff, had filed Title Suit No.200 of 1998 in the Court of the learned Civil Judge, Senior Division, Jagatsinghpur. The suit is for partition. The Trial Court decreed the suit preliminarily entitling the Respondent No.1 (Plaintiff) to 1/20th share over Schedule-B property and 1/5th share over Schedule-C property. The predecessor-in-interest of these Appellants, namely, Prahallad Khatua & Balakrushna Khatua as well as two others, i.e., Bhagaban Khatua & Jagabandhu Khatua, who had been arraigned as Defendant Nos.1, 2, 5