COMMON JUDGMENT

These appeals are filed by the appellants/plaintiffs under Section 96 of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908, being aggrieved by the Judgment and Decree, dated 04.06.2007 passed in O.S.No.184 of 2000 by the learned Principal District Judge, at L.B. Nagar.

2. Heard Sri P. Sasidhar Reddy, learned counsel for the appellants and Sri M.V.S. Suresh Kumar, learned Senior Counsel representing Sri Ranga Rao Nellutla, learned counsel for the respondents. Perused the entire material on record.

3. For the sake of convenience, the parties hereinafter referred to, as they are arrayed before the Trial Court.

4. As both the appeals arise out of the same judgment and decree, and as the parties in both the appeals have submitted common arguments, this Court intends to dispose of both the appeals jointly by way of a common judgment.

5. The brief facts of the case are that the plaintiffs filed the suit seeking for a preliminary decree for partition of the suit schedule properties into three equal and equitable shares by metes and bounds, according to their good and bad qualities, and for allotment of one such share to plaintiff Nos.1 to 5 jointly and one share each to defendant Nos.1 and 2,