CHANDRA REDDY, J. : -

The plaintiff in O. S. 142/50 and defendant in O. S. 22 of 1951 on the file of the Subordinate Judges Court, Kakinada. is the appellant in both the appeals. The plaintiff in O. S. 142/ 1950 laid an action against her husband for recovery of maintenance, future at the rate of Rs. 4000/- per year and past at Rs. 2000/- per year for nine years, jewels weighing 50 tolas of gold and valued at Rs. 5000/- and for an account of her "Pasupu kumkuma" (pin-money) entrusted to her husband by her father after the marriage and for other incidental reliefs.

It was alleged in the plaint that the defendant induced the plaintiffs parents in December 1927 to give her in marriage to him on the representation that he had left off his first wife who was unfit for marital life, being sick, that they lived happily for some years and later on he brought back his first wife in breach of this assurance and began to neglect and ill-treat the plaintiff and ultimately drove her out of the house in the year 1940 after forcibly removing a gold chain and bangles from her which were presented to her by her parents at the time of her marriage.

The next day after the marriage, her father p