BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT Date of Reserved 26/03/2025 Date of Pronounced 30/04/2025 CORAM The Hon'ble Mr.Justice G.ILANGOVAN SA No.790 of 1999

1.Veerammal

2.Vaidyalingam (Died) 3.Sundararajan (Died)

4.Venkittu

5.Tamilzharasan

6.Selvarani

7.Jaya : Appellants 1 to 6/

Respondents 2 to 8/

Plaintiffs

8.Ammalu

9.Nepolian

10.Jaihind : Appellants 8 to 10/

(R8 to R10 are brought on LR.s of the deceased A2 record as LR.s of the deceased second appellant, vide court order, dated 03/02/2022 made in CMP(MD)No.11168 of 2021 in SA No.790 of 1999)

11.Jayakodi

12.Karthikeyan

13.Siva : Appellants 11 to 13/

LR.s of the deceased A3 (A11 to A13 are brought on record as LR.s of the deceased 3rd appellant vide Court order, dated 03/02/2022 made in CMP(MD)No.11170 of 2021 in SA No.790 of 1999)

Vs.

1.Thangavel

2.Muthukrishnan (Died)

3.Alagappan (Died)

4.Palaniappan (Died) 5.Chinnaswamy (Died)

6.N.S.A.Rowther By his Power Agent Ramasamy

7.Rajammal (Died)

8.Selvaraj

9.Rajeswari

10.Pushpavalli

11.Sulakshana

12.Saradam

13.Minor Muthukumar

14.Minor Kanimozi (Minor respondents 13 & 14 represented by their mother and guardian 12th respondent Saradam

15.Gandhimathi (R15 is brought on record as LR of the deceased 2nd responde