(1.) AS all these Original Side Appeals (for short, 'the OSAs') have been preferred by the same appellant, and arising out the same suit and the applications thereto, they were heard together and disposed of by this common judgment.
(2.) THE appellant-Shanthilal Kothari, was the first defendant in Civil Suit No. 770 of 1997 and the first respondent--Sathrasala Sarath Babu is the plaintiff in the said Civil Suit.
(3.) THE parties are hereinafter referred as the plaintiff and the first defendant.