JUDGMENT

The Second Appeal is directed against the judgment and decree passed in A.S.No.13 of 2012, dated 14.03.2017, on the file of the Subordinate Court, Palani, reversing the judgment and decree made in O.S.No.33 of 2008, dated 14.12.2011, on the file of the District Munsif Court, Palani.

2. For the sake of convenience and brevity, the parties will hereinafter be referred as per their status/ranking in their original suit.

3. The second defendant is the appellant. The respondents 1 and 2 as plaintiffs have filed the above suit against the appellant and the third respondent for partiton and allotment of 2/3 shares in the suit properties in favour of the plaintiffs. Admittedly, the plaintiffs are the sisters of the first defendant. It is not in dispute that the suit properties originally belonged to one Kalianna gounder – paternal grandfather of the plaintiffs and the first defendant ancestrally, that the family members of Kalianna gounder entered into a registered partition dated 25.06.1968, wherein the properties shown as “B” schedule properties therein including the suit properties in the present suit were allotted to the share of Thangavel gounder – father of the plaintiffs and t