JUDGMENT

This appeal suit has been preferred as against the decree and judgment passed in O.S.No.26 of 1984 on the file of the Subordinate Court, Thanjavur, wherein the respondents 1 and 2 herein have filed the suit for partition in respect of suit properties and the Trial Court has decreed the suit. As against the decree and judgement passed by the Trial Court, the defendants 9 to 11 have preferred this appeal.

2. The brief averments of the amended plaint are as follows:-

2.1 The plaintiffs are the sons of 1^st defendant. The 2^nd defendant is the younger brother of the first defendant. The suit properties are the ancestral joint family properties. The 4^th defendant is the wife of the 1^st defendant and mother of plaintiffs. The suit properties item Nos. 1 to 15 are the properties originally owned by the plaintiffs grandfather Chinnathambi Servai. It is his ancestral property. After the demise of Chinnathambi Servai, his two sons 1^st and 2^nd defendants inherited the properties. The 1^st and 2^nd defendants are co-parcerners. The items 1 to 15 of the suit properties are heavy income yielding lands. From the income of the items 1 to 15 of the suit properties, the 1^st and 2^nd defendants purc