This Civil Revision Petition raises a question relating to court-fee and jurisdiction. The suit which has given rise to this Civil Revision Petition was instituted by the respondent herein for setting aside the compromise decree passed in O.S. No. 610 of 1944 on 13th December, 1945. The short facts of the case leading up to this litigation may be stated.

The present first respondent filed O.S. No. 15 of 1927 on the file of the District Munsif of Madurantakam for recovering maintenance from the adoptive mother of the present petitioner and obtained a decree therein. In execution of that decree for maintenance the present first respondent brought the properties to sale and purchased them herself. Subsequently the present petitioner filed O.S. No. 610 of 1944 for a declaration that the decree obtained in O.S. No. 15 of 1927 was not binding upon him for the reason that he was not impleaded as a party to that suit. That suit ultimately ended in a compromise decree under which the present first respondent was given 3 acres 12 cents of nanja land with absolute rights in full . quit of her rights under the decree in O.S. No. 15 of 1927. Now the first respondent herein has filed O.S.