RAJAGOPALA AYYANGAR J.

This is a petition to revise the order of the District Munsif of Tiruchirapalli, regarding certain findings on two preliminary issues, which were raised for his decision

The first defendant is the petitioner in this revision petition. He was the president of the Srirangam Janopakara Bank Ltd., which is a banking company incorporated under the Indian Companies Act. This company was managed by a board of 13 directors, with the first defendant as the president. There appear to have been some differences and disputes in the board of management, which at this stage it is unnecessary to detail, and the directors called for a meeting of the board on November 14, 1953, when they purported to remove the first defendant from the office of presidentship and appointed the second plaintiff in his stead. As the petitioner refused to recognise the validity of his removal and to hand over charge to the person appointed as president, the suit out of which this revision arises was filed by the company by its newly elected president as the first plaintiff, the newly elected president as the second plaintiff, and plaintiffs 3 to 10 being 8 other directors. To this suit