JUDGMENT

The unsuccessful plaintiff is the appellant herein.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to as per their ranking before the trial Court.

3. The appellant/plaintiff has filed a suit in O.S.No.946 of 2004 before the learned I Additional District Munsif, Trichirapalli, seeking the relief of permanent injunction restraining the defendants, their men, agents, servants etc., from in any way obstructing the passage of the plaintiff, their family members, men, agents etc., to the common well and suit properties along the ridge shown as 'AB', 'BCDEF', 'GH', 'IJ', 'BKL' and 'MN' for agricultural purposes along with cattle, power tiller and agricultural produce.

4. The plaint proceeds on the basis that;

[a] The plaintiff and the defendants are all Pangalis. The original common ancestor Lakshmanan had four sons. His first son is Onthan; the second son is Adaikkalam; the third son is Nallapethi and the fourth son is Thevan. The plaintiff is the grand son of Nallapethi and he belongs to third branch. The defendants belong to the 1st and 2nd and 4th branches.

[b] The sons of the common ancestor divided the family properties about 100 years back. Each of the four branches g