(1.) This Second Appeal is filed by defendants 3 to 5 as against the judgment and decree, dated 15.02.2010, passed by the Principal District Judge, Erode, in A.S.No.85 of 2009, confirming the judgment and decree, dated 26.03.2009, passed by the Principal Sub-Judge, Erode, in O.S.No.349 of 2005, which was one for partition and separate possession.
(2.) The appellants are the defendants 3 to 5 in the suit proceedings and the respondents 1 and 2 herein are the plaintiffs. The parties, for the sake of convenience, are referred to hereunder according to their litigative status and ranking before the trial Court.
(3.) The facts which gave rise to the filing of the suit, in brief, would run thus: