( 1 ) THIS Letters Patent Appeal is preferred against the Judgment dated 24-8-1993 in a. S. No. 633 of 1982, whereunder the learned single Judge affirmed the judgment and decree dated 22-3-1982 in O. S. No. 61 of 1979 on the file of the Court of the Subordinate judge, Eluru.

( 2 ) THE defendants are the appellants. The respondent/plaintiff filed O. S. No. 61 of 1979 seeking a decree against the defendants 2 to 6 and 8 to 10 personally and against the estate of the 1st defendant for recovery of a sum of Rs. 2,01,293 with subsequent interest and also for certain other consequential reliefs. The said suit was decreed as prayed for granting future interest at 6% p. a. on principal amount from the date of suit till realisation. Aggrieved by the same, the defendants filed A. S. No. 633 of 1982. Regarding future interest, which was disallowed partly by the trial Court, the plaintiff filed Cross-objections. A learned single Judge dismissed both the appeal as well as the Cross-objections. Hence the letters Patent Appeal by the defendants.

( 3 ) THE parties shall be referred to, herein after, as the plaintiff and the defendants for the sake of convenience.

( 4 ) THE case of the