These two captioned appeal are filed by the

defendant

No.7

and

defendant

No.8/purchasers

questioning the preliminary decree passed by the both

Courts in a partition suit.

2. For the sake of brevity, the ranks of the

parties are referred as they are ranked before the

Trial Court.

3.

The geological tree of the family is as

under;

Ramappa

|

Amrappa Maddikar (D.1)

___________________________|____________________________

|

|

| | | |

Adappa Mahadevappa Hanmappa Yellappa Mallamma Huligemma

(adopted (D.2)

| (D.3) (D.4) (D.5)

By Balingappa

Parmamma (P.6)

Maddikar)

|

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| | | | |

Ramappa Sharnappa Sahadevappa Sampamma Sharada

(P.1) (P.2) (P.3) (P.4) (P.5)

4. The plaintiffs, who represent the branch of

Hanmappa, filed a suit for partition alleging that

defendant No.2, who is managing the ancestral

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properties, declined to give share in the yield

generated from the ancestral properti