Palanivelayutham Pillai & Ors vs Ramachandran & Ors

The Supreme Court addressed the partition of ancestral properties in the context of a dispute involving multiple wills and a gift deed. The court held that the properties in question, gifted by Palanivelayutham Pillai to Madurai Devasthanam, were not subject to partition among the descendants of Sivasankaran Pillai due to the nature of the gift and the management rights established by the wills. The court affirmed the validity of the wills executed by Sivasankaran Pillai, thereby rejecting the plaintiffs' claims for partition of the schedule C properties.