There are two connected appeals. A.S. No. 774 of 1954, is a pauper appeal filed by minor Velu Niranjan, the plaintiff in O.S. No. 2 of 1953, on the file of the Subordinate Judge, Madurai, against the judgment and decree in that pauper suit in so far as it went against him. A.S. No. 65 of 1955 has been filed by Alagammal and Nagappa Konar, defendants 3 and 4 in O.S. No. 2 of 1953, in so far as they considered the judgment and decree as going against their interests.

The facts were briefly these: Minor Velu Niranjan, the plaintiff, was the son of one Sundari Ammal, the second defendant. He claimed that his mother, Sundari Ammal was married by Rajagopal Konar or Periakaruppan Konar as his second wife, his first wife being one Alagammal, the first defendant. According to him, Alagammal, the first defendant did not have any child for four or five years after the marriage and Rajagopal, her husband, despaired of her having issue, took upto himself Sundari Ammal, the second defendant, as his second wife, and that he lived with Sundari Ammal for some two months in his family house and for six years in a separate house as the two wives did not get along amicably, and t