Pandrang Row, J.

1. These four connected appeals arise out of two suits for maintenance filed by two widows belonging to the same composite family. Appeals Nos. 156 and 191 are by the plaintiffs in the suits and the other two appeals are by defendants 1 to 7. The suits were for maintenance including arrears of maintenance and also for recovery of jewels or their value and for provision for residence. The claim in both cases was for maintenance and arrears at the rate of Rs. 300 a month and Rs. 5,000 each in lieu of provision for residence. The value of the stridhanam jewels that were claimed was Rs. 6,700 and odd in one case and in the other Rs. 8,700. The suits were tried together and disposed of by one and the same judgment dated 12th October, 1935, the suits having been actually instituted in 1929. The Subordinate Judge of Nellore who decided both these suits gave a decree in each case for Rs. 100 a month as maintenance and arrears of maintenance and Rs. 2,500 as provision for residence and dismissed the claim for jewels or their value in both the suits. Both parties have now appealed in both suits and the contentions of the defendants, who are the appellants in two of th