JUDGMENT :

1. This second appeal is directed against the judgment and decree dated 09.09.2010 passed by the learned Senior Civil Judge, Nirmal, in A.S.No.15 of 2006 confirming the judgment and decree dated 14.08.2006 passed by the learned Junior Civil Judge, Nirmal, in O.S.No.108 of 1997. The said suit was filed by the plaintiff seeking for declaration and recovery of possession of suit schedule property. By the judgment dated 14.08.2006, the trial Court decreed the suit with costs in favour of the plaintiff.

2. Vemula Sulochana-plaintiff filed a suit for declaration of possession of the land admeasuring Ac.2.25 guntas, dry, situated in Sy.No.392 of Rajura Village of Khanapur Mandal (hereinafter referred to as ‘suit land’), inter alia contending that she is the owner and possessor of the suit land and that she succeeded the same from her deceased mother-Lalitha Bai and her mother died in the year 1996 leaving behind her daughter, the plaintiff, as the sole legal heir. Thereafter, the plaintiff approached the Mandal Revenue Officer, Khanapur, to mutate the suit land in her favour after the death of her mother as successor. The defendant is the brother of her father i.e. junior paterna