This is an appeal by the first defendant from a decree of the Additional Subordinate Judge of Mayuram granting maintenance at the rate of Rs. 15 per mensem to each of the first three plaintiffs and at Rs. 30 per mensem to fourth plaintiff, and a further payment to the plaintiffs of Rs. 10 per mensem towards their residence. The decree also directed the first defendant to pay plaintiffs past maintenance for a period of three years at the said rates. The properties described in the plaint ‘B ‘schedule were charged with the maintenance so decreed. The Suit was instituted in forma pauperis for partition and separate possession of the first plaintiff’s one-fifth share in the suit properties and for right of residence of the fourth plaintiff in item 1 of the plaint ‘A ‘schedule and for maintenance at Rs. 100 per mensem from 1st April, 1958, and for past and future maintenance at the same rate for the plaintiffs’. The plaintiff’s case was that the first defendant, who had a spouse living, married the fourth plaintiff on 9th May, 1951, at Mayuram. It is not in dispute that the fourth plaintiff is a Malayalee lady and that she has been a permanent resident of Travancore State