One Unnamalai Achi filed a suit Original Suit No. 44 of 1966 on the file of the Court of the Subordinate Judge of Devokattai, against one Murugappa Chetty for recovery of a sum of Rs. 26,560 on the basis that she had deposited a sum of Rs 21,136-50 with Murugappa Chetty repayable with compound interest Murugappa Chetty died during the suit and defendants 2 to 5 were impleaded as his legal representatives. Defendants 3 and 4 allowed the suit to be decreed ex parte. The other two merely put the plaintiff to proof of the claim. The learned Subordinate Judge who tried the suit held against the plaintiff and dismissed the suit. Appeal Suit No. 416 of 1967 has been preferred by the plaintiff Unnamalai Achi against the four legal representatives.

In the meantime, one Ramaswami Chetty who obtained a decree in Original Suit No. 3 of 1965 on the file of the Court of the Subordinate Judge, Devakottai against the said Murugappa Chetty for a sum of over Rs. 25,000 on 25th January 1965, filed Execution Petition No. 86 of 1965 for recovery of the amount by sale of the house of Murugappa Chetty in Palangudi in Ramanathapuram District.

Civil Miscellaneous Petitions Nos. 7599 and 7600 of 1967 h