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IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD
K.SUJANA
Koorapati Shankar – Appellant
Versus
Koorapati Pentaiah – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
K.SUJANA, J.
This appeal is filed by the appellant-plaintiff aggrieved by the judgment and preliminary decree dated 22.04.2002 passed in O.S.No.90 of 1994 on the file of Principal Senior Civil Judge, Warangal. The plaintiff filed the suit for granting preliminary decree declaring that he is entitled to 1/5th share in the suit schedule properties and for final decree for partition of his 1/5th share. For the sake of convenience, the parties herein afterreferred to as they are arrayed in the suit.
2. Plaintiff, along with defendant Nos.1, 2 to 4, are the children of one K. Narsaiah, while D5 is his wife, defendant No.10 and defendant No.11 are the wife and son of defendant No.1, respectively. Defendant Nos.6 to 9 were added as third parties due to their involvement in property transactions. The plaintiff alleged that he, defendant Nos.1 to 5, and their father were co-parceners in a Joint Hindu Family, and that K. Narsaiah died intestate on 07.11.1992, leaving behind ‘A, B, and C’ schedule properties, which were acquired from joint family funds. During his lifetime, K. Narsaiah worked at AjamJahi Mills, took voluntary retirement, and later engaged in kirana and firewood busine
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