(1.) These second appeals are preferred by the plaintiff. She has laid a suit for partition of three items of properties. The suit was partially decreed by the trial court, challenging which decree the first defendant's branch (defendants 8 to 12) preferred a first appeal in A.S.I56 of 2003, in which the plaintiff had preferred her cross objection. The first appellate court allowed the appeal and dismissed the cross objection, which implied that the suit was dismissed in its entirety. Aggrieved by the said decrees of the first appellate court, the plaintiff has approached this court with these appeals. Parties would be referred to by their rank in the trial court.
(2.) The Plaintiff s case:
(3.) The trial Court framed as many as nine issues. Critical among them are the first issue, which pertains to ascertaining the character of the suit properties - whether they are the self acquisitions of Chenimalai Gounder or ancestral properties in his hands; the 6th issue relates to the alleged family settlement where under the children of the Nachammal had alleged to have relinquished their right in the property for Rs. 15,000/-. The 5th issue relates to the genuineness of the Will of Valliammal dated 19-09-1985, marked Ext.B-38. The Additional second issue framed on 04-12-2001 relates to the need to implead the purchasers of item 1.