(1.) THE APPEAL : This civil appeal, by special leave granted on 14/3/2013, assails the judgment and decree dtd. 21/10/2010 [impugned judgment] passed by the High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Hyderabad [High Court] of dismissal of a second appeal [Second Appeal No. 620 of 2007] preferred by the appellants, thereby affirming the judgment and decree of the first appellate court dtd. 17/1/2007. Appellants [plaintiffs in the original suit] were directed to seek their remedies by way of a separate civil suit.
(2.) Facts giving rise to the present appeal, shorn of unnecessary details, are these.
(3.) The Appellate Court framed the following points for consideration: