THE HON’BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CITY CIVIL COURT APPEAL No.27 OF 2019

JUDGMENT:

This is an appeal filed by the appellants, being aggrieved by the judgment and decree, dated 28.11.2018 passed in O.S.No.201 of 2013 by the learned XII Additional Chief Judge, City Civil Court, Secunderabad (for short “the trial Court”).

2. The appellants herein are the defendants 2 and 3, the respondent No.1 is the plaintiff and respondent Nos.2 and 3 are the defendant Nos.1 and 4 before the trial Court. The parties herein are referred to as they were arrayed in the suit before the trial Court for the sake of convenience and clarity.

3. The case of the plaintiff before the trial Court is that the suit schedule property bearing No.5365/A (old) corresponding to Municipal No.9-3-562 (new), situated at Regimental Bazar, Secunderabad, belongs to Kundan Bai W/o. Sitaram and that plaintiff’s elder sister by name Kovvuri Saraswathi Bai was the tenant of the said house for a long time and she developed a close friendship with Kundan Bai. It is further averred that in 1966, when Kundan Bai intended to sell the suit schedule property, the plaintiff agreed to purchase the same. It is his case that as Kund