(1.) Challenge in this Second Appeal is to the Judgment and Decree, dated 22.10.2002, passed in Appeal Suit No.34 of 2000 by the learned Additional District-cum-Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sivagangai, wherein, the Judgment and Decree, dated 13.01.2000, passed in Original Suit No. 73 of 1998 by the learned Subordinate Judge, Devakottai, are reversed.
(2.) The appellants are the defendants, who succeeded before the trial Court, but lost before the first Appellate Court. The plaintiff died pending first appeal and the respondents herein are the legal heirs of the deceased sole plaintiff.
(3.) The parties hereinafter are referred to as plaintiff and defendants as arrayed in the suit.