ORDER. — This is a petition to revise the order of the learned IV Assistant Judge, City Civil Court, Madras, dated 25th September, 1976 directing the petitioner herein who were the plaintiffs in O.S. No. 4390 of 1973 to pay court-fees under section 40 or the Tamil Nadu Court-fees Act, 1955 hereinafter referred to as the Act. The petitioners herein who were the plaintiffs in the suit stated that one Ghanshamdas Chaturbuj introduced one B.E. Loungani of the first defendant firm a to them, that the said Loungani became an intimate friend of the second plaintiff (second petitioner herein), that the said Loungani represented that he would require hundies for the purpose of accommodation to enable him to discount with third parties and raise monies thereon for the purpose of his business, that the said Loungani also assured the plaintiffs that he would himself make the necessary arrangements for the honouring of the hundies on the due dates and that no liability would be fastened upon the plaintiffs and that he had facilities with the second defendant for accommodation to the extent of Rs. 50,000. The plaintiffs further stated in the plaint that to oblige the first defendant they gave th

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