JUDGMENT :

Challenge has been made against the preliminary decree passed by the trial Court allotting 1/10^th share to the plaintiffs 2 to 8 separately and 9 to 12 jointly in the suit properties and decreeing the suit for permanent injunction, in the present appeal by the defendants 6 and 7, who are purchasers of the property from the defendants 2 to 4.

2. The parties are arrayed as per their own ranking before the trial Court.

3. The plaintiffs and the first defendant are sisters. The second defendant is the wife of Selvaraj, brother of the plaintiffs and the first defendant. The defendants 3 and 4 are daughter and son of the second defendant. The father of the plaintiffs and the first defendant Ramanjulu Naidu purchased the first item of the suit property under a registered sale deed dated 27.12.1945. Thereafter, he and his wife have purchased following agricultural lands :