Pandrang Row, J.

1. These connected Revision Petitions arise out of two connected Small Cause Suits instituted by two different persons claiming to be assignees or indorsees of two different promissory notes under indorsements purporting to have been made by Rao Saheb P.U. Narayana Aiyar and P. Ramayya Alva as joint holders of a power-of-attorney granted to them by the liquidators of the National Livestock Registration Bank, Ltd., Madras. The suits were dismissed mainly on the ground that the indorsements were not valid and conveyed no interest to the assignees. In one of these revision petitions, namely, C.R.P. No. 1041 of 1936, the only question that arises is whether the indorsement by the agents of the Liquidators is valid in law. This very point arose in connection with a similar case in C.R.P. No. 22 of 1934 in which it was held by Sir Owen Beasley, C.J., that the liquidators had no power whatever to delegate their powers to any one else. The power of the liquidators themselves is derived from Section 179 of the Indian Companies Act and so far as indorsements of promissory notes are concerned, from Clause (f) of that section. In other words, the power given to the liqu