JUDGMENT :

P.Krishna Kumar, J.

The second appellant is the legal heir of the first appellant/first petitioner in O.P. No.1599/2013 on the files of the Family Court, Attingal. The original petition was filed seeking recovery of gold and money from the respondents. The first petitioner in the original petition was the wife of the first respondent. For the sake of convenience, the parties will hereinafter be referred to as the petitioner and the respondents. The trial court dismissed the claim for recovery of gold and money on the finding that the petitioner had failed to establish her case. The present appeal has been preferred, challenging the said judgment.

2. The marriage between the petitioner and the first respondent was solemnised on 04.05.2003. The petitioner contended that, at the time of marriage, her parents had given her 100 sovereigns of gold ornaments, the details of which were furnished in the schedule attached to the petition. It was further contended that, on the same day, her parents visited the matrimonial home and entrusted a sum of ₹3,00,000/- to the father of the first respondent. The first respondent directed her to entrust all her gold ornaments to his mother afte