THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE K. SUJANA

JUDGMENT:

Challenging the judgment and decree dated

03.12.2014 passed in O.S.No.64 of 2012 by the learned Principal District Judge, Mahabubnagar, the present appeal suit is filed.

2. The brief facts of the case are that the plaintiff, Smt. P. Vijaya, daughter of late M. Ramchandraiah, filed the suit seeking partition and separate possession of her 1/5^th share in the suit schedule properties, which consisted of lands situated at Nandigama and Inmulnarva villages in Mahabubnagar District. She claimed that the items 1 to 3 of the schedule lands were ancestral and joint family properties that originally belonged to her grandfather, M. Narayana, who passed away in the year 2001. Upon his demise, the properties devolved upon his sons, including her father, Ramchandraiah. The plaintiff contended that the remaining items 4 and 5 were also acquired by her father from the income of the joint family properties and thus retained the character of joint family assets. Ramchandraiah died intestate on 21.01.2008, leaving behind the plaintiff, her mother (D1), her two brothers (D2 and D3), and her sister (D4) as his legal heirs.

3. She asserted that in the year 20