J U D G M E N T

This Appeal Suit has been preferred challenging the judgment and decree of the learned Principal District Judge, Sivagangai, dated

28.09.2020 in O.S.No.54 of 2015.

2. The plaintiffs are the appellants.The appellants/plaintiffs have filed the suit for the relief of partition and separate possession of ¾ shares in the suit property and also for permanent injunction restraining the defendants from removing the timber in the suit property or from altering the physical features of the suit property; the plaintiffs and the first defendant are the daughters of one VendiyappaThevar, who was in possession and enjoyment of the suit property along with other properties; the character of the properties is ancestral in nature and hence, it is joint family property; patta stood in the name of VendiyappaThevar; after marriage, the plaintiffs and the first defendant were living with their husbands in their respective matrimonial homes; in the year 2010, there was a family arrangement; under the said arrangements, the suit properties alone were kept as joint properties and other properties were divided into 5 shares; plaintiffs and the first defendant were given with four shares and t