K. RAMACHANDRA RAO, J.

( 1 ) A short but interesting question that arises for Consideration in this second appeal is as to the interpretation of the words bed and bedding occurring in Section 14-A which was introduced by way of an amendment in 1959 in the Madras Revenue Recovery Act, act II of 1864 (Hereinafter called the Act ). The question arises in the following way.

( 2 ) THE plaintiff, appellant herein, filed the suit out of which this appeal arises for recovery of a sum of Rs. l,000/- towards damages for illegal attachment of the plaintiff s tape cot and for the 1st defendant having abused the plaintift and his son. The 2nd defendant is the Government of Andhra Pradesh. The 1st defendant is the tahsildar at Tenali during the period July, 1964 to July, 1965. The plaintiff is a farmer of Chituvuru village in Tenali taluk The plain tiff owns several lands which are assessed to land revenue. On 19-3-l965 the 1st defendant along with his staff visited the plaintiff s boose and served an attachment order, Ex. B. 2. on the plainstiff s son requiring him to pay a sum of Rs. 176, 95 towards arrears of land tax and commercial crop tax. As the plaintiff s son did not pay up the amount

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