JUDGMENT

Dated this the 17th day of December, 2025

Syam Kumar V.M., J

This Appeal is filed challenging the order dated 03 September 2022 in O.P. (Arb) No.35 of 2021 of the Principal Sub Court/Commercial Court, Kollam. The said O.P. was filed challenging the arbitration award dated 30 March 2017 of the learned Arbitrator in ARC No.7 of 2014, whereby the claim preferred by the 1^st Respondent claimant was allowed in part.

2. Appellants herein were the petitioners in the said OP (Arb).

They were Respondents 1 to 4 and 6 to 11 and legal representatives of the deceased Respondent No.12 in the ARC before the Arbitrator. Respondents were the Respondents in the O.P. and the claimant and Respondent No.5, respectively, in the ARC.

3. The subject matter of the dispute is a partnership arrangement formed to run a hotel/restaurant and a bar by the name and style ‘Hotel Alakananda’ at Kollam. The claimant started the hotel in a building erected on his 21.5 cent parcel of land. FL 3 licence to run the bar stood in the name of the claimant and was obtained by him in the year 1992. The hotel fell into financial doldrums, and to augment the resources as well as to meet the outstanding liabilities with cred