JUDGMENT

The unsuccessful first defendant in the suit is the appellant herein. The first respondent/plaintiff filed a suit in O.S.No.218 of 2017 for partition, seeking half share in the suit property, which was decreed. The appeal filed by the first defendant in A.S.No.8 of 2018 was also dismissed, confirming the judgment and decree passed by the Trial Court, Aggrieved by the concurrent findings of the courts below, the first defendant has come before this court by filing the second appeal.

2. According to the first respondent/plaintiff, the suit property was originally belonged to one Thiruvengada Naicker Vagaiyara and the same was purchased by Murugappa Naicker and his brother Pachaiyappa Naicker jointly under a registered sale deed dated 27.05.1981, which has been marked as Ex.A1. The defendants are sons of Pachaiyappa Naicker. The plaintiff purchased half share in the suit property from Murugappa Naicker under a registered sale deed dated 21.02.2007, which has been marked as Ex.A2. Thus, the plaintiff claim