S SAI REDDY Vs. S NARAYANA REDDY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) This appeal is directed against the judgment and order dated February 2, 1990 of the Andhra Pradesh High court allowing the revision petition filed by respondents 2 to 5 and setting aside the order of the trial court rejecting the respondents' claim for a share in the property in dispute.

(3.) The appellant filed a suit in the court of the Subordinate Judge at Mahabubnagar against his father and brother for partition of the ancestral joint family property claiming one-third share in it. The suit was contested by the father and the brother but the Subordinate Judgeaccepted the appellant's claim and passed a preliminary decree by his order dated 26/12/1973 declaring that the appellant as well as his father and brother each were entitled to one-third share in the property. The defendants preferred appeal before the High court against the preliminary decree. The High court by its judgment dated 15/10/1984 confirmed the findings of the trial court with the direction that an appropriate provision should be made for the maintenance and marriage expenses of respondents 2 to 5 who were unmarried sisters of the appellant. The High court directed that the expenses incurred for the maintenance and marriage of respondents 2 to 5 shall be borne equally by the appellant, the father and the brother.