IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

Reserved on : 22.02.2021

Pronounced on : 04.03.2021

Coram:

THE HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE G.JAYACHANDRAN

A.S.No.250 of 2017

P.Saravanan

... Plaintiff/Appellant

/versus/

1. M.Sivasubramanian,

2. S.Manigandan,

3. Dhanuja Murali,

4. Kavitha Senthil,

5. Vidya Venkataragavan,

... Defendants/Respondents

Prayer: First Appeal is filed under Section 96 of the Code of

Civil Procedure against the judgment and decree dated 01.02.2017

in O.S.No.76 of 2015 on the file of Principal District Court,

Krishnagiri.

For Appellants : Mr.R.Subramanian, Senior Counsel

for M/s.Gupta and Ravi

For R1 to R5

: Mr.V.Lakshminarayanan,

for Mr.R.Jayaprakash

J U D G M E N T

The plaintiff, who lost his suit for partition is the

appellant before this Court.

2. The factual background of the dispute between the

parties can be summarised as under:-

The parties engaged in dispute are descendants of one

K.N.T.Manickam Chettiar S/o.K.N.Thandavaraya Chettiar. During

the life time of K.N.Thandavaraya Chettiar, he and his 6 sons

entered into a partition deed on 01.01.1947 (Ex.A-20) and got it

registered. The ancestral properties and the properties accrued

through joint family me