CHENNAKESAV REDDY, J.

( 1 ) IN this appeal preferred under Section 28 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) the wife is the appellant. Her husband, Midathada Jugannadham, filed an applicition under Sections 10 and 13 of the Act for dissolution of the marriage by a decree of divorce on the ground that his wife, Akkamma, has been living in adultery with Pailasuri Demudu, the second respondent in the application since October, 1958. The learned Additional Subordinate Judge allowed the application of the husband. The wife has now come up in appeal.

( 2 ) THE events leading to the matrimonial dispute between the spouses may be shortly stated: Midathada Jagannadham married Akkamma, the daughter of his maternal uncle when she was a child of 10 years some time in 1928. Akkamma was a sickly woman and did not attain puberty. Jagannadham, married Demudamma in about 1938. It is the case Jagannadham that be married Demudamma after her marriage with her first husband was dissolved according to the custom of the community, while it is the case of Akkamma that Demudamma lived only as a concubine of Jagannadham and that the marriage with her first husband was not diss

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