Venkataraman, J. — This is an appeal by one A. N. Subramaniam Chettiar, the first defendant in the suit, O.S. No. 132 of 1949, on the file of the Subordinate Judge’s Court, Pudukkottai, against the order, dated 16th August, 1969 of the learned Subordinate Judge dismissing the application, E.A. No. 161 of 1966, which he had filed under Order 21, rule 2 of the Civil Procedure Code, to record full satisfaction of the decree so far as he was concerned. There was one Subramaniam Chettiar. He had three sons, Annamalai, Chidambaram and Kuttayan. The first defendant in the suit (appellant herein) is the son of Annamalai Chettiar. The third defendant in the suit is Adaikalam Chettiar alias Kuttayan Chettiar (third son of Subramaniam Chettiar). The plaintiff in the suit was Deivanai Achi alias Visalakshi Achi, the wife of the said Kuttayan Chettiar. She filed the suit against the three defendants, the first defendant, Chidambaram (her husband’s brother) as the second defendant, and her husband, Kuttayan Chettiar, as the third defendant. Chidambaram, the second defendant died and his son C. T. Subramaniam Chettiar was impleaded as his legal representative and figured as the fourth defendant.

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