(1.) Heard Mr. Prasheen Lotlikar for the appellants and Mr. Guru Shirodkar for the respondent nos. 1(a) to 1(g) and 2.
(2.) This Second Appeal was admitted on 11.12.2003 on the following substantial questions of law:
(3.) The appellants and the respondent no. 3 i.e. Government of Goa were the original defendants in Special Civil Suit No. 19/1991/A, instituted by the respondent nos. 1 and 2 in the Court of the Civil Judge Senior Division at Bicholim. In the civil suit, the plaintiffs had prayed for the following reliefs: