(1.) ALL these three civil revisions are filed by the eight plaintiffs in O. S. No. 14/1997 pending on the file of the Court of the III Addl. Civil Judge (Jr. Dn.), Gadag, and the common respondents herein are the defendants in that suit. They are filed against the respective orders of the lower appellate Court by which the plaintiffs' I. A. No. 1 under Order 39, Rules 1 and 2, CPC came to be dismissed and the trial Court's order allowing defendant No. 1's I. A. No. 9 under Order 39, Rules 1 and 2, CPC stands affirmed.
(2.) THE said O. S. No. 14/1997 of the petitioners-plaintiffs was instituted in the trial Court on 6-1-1997 against respondents (hereinafter referred to as 'the defendants') for the following main reliefs :
(3.) THE plaintiffs' case stated in the plaint in support of the above reliefs, briefly stated, is that :