JUDGMENT :

The appellant herein is defendant No.2 in O.S.No.617 of 2013 on the file of Addl. Judge cum VI Senior Civil Judge, Hyderabad, the first respondent is plaintiff and second respondent is first defendant in the said suit. Being aggrieved by the Judgment and Decree dated 12-04-2018 in O.S.No.617 of 2013 by which the trial Court passed a decree in favour of the respondent No.1/plaintiff, the present appeal has been preferred by the defendant No.2. The parties will be referred to as they are arrayed in the plaint.

2. The plaintiff has filed O.S.No.617 of 2013 for partition of suit schedule property and for allotment of 1/4th share each to plaintiff and defendant No.1 and for allotment of half share to the defendant No.2. The plaintiff has claimed in the suit that the defendant No.1 is her elder sister and defendant No.2 is their brother. The suit schedule property is self acquired property of their father by name Mohammed Abdul Jabbar Khan and during his life time, he has constructed a building over the property. The father of plaintiff died intestate during 2005, the mother of the plaintiff also died on 10-05-2007 leaving the plaintiff and defendants No.1 and 2 as her legal hei