ORAL JUDGMENT

(PER: THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ASHOK S. KINAGI)

This Regular First Appeal is filed by the appellants, challenging the judgment and decree dated 20.03.2019 passed in O.S.No.280/2014 by the learned Principal Senior Civil Judge and CJM, Dharwad.

2. For convenience, the parties are referred to, based on their rankings, before the trial Court. The Appellants were the legal representatives of the deceased plaintiff and the respondents were the defendants.

3. Brief facts, leading rise to the filing of this Regular First Appeal, are as follows:

The plaintiffs have filed a suit against the defendants for the relief of declaration, partition, and separate possession regarding the suit schedule properties. It is the case of the plaintiffs that, the deceased plaintiff, Basappa, and defendants No.1 and 2 are the members of a Hindu joint family. The husband of defendant No.1 by the name Yallappa, was the kartha of the joint family. The suit schedule properties were inherited by the deceased Yallappa from his mother’s side. According to him, they are his ancestral properties. From 1965 onwards, till the date of filing of the present suit, the suit schedule properties were in joint possess