Alfred Henry Lionel Leach, C.J.

1. This petition raises the question whether a person who has obtained an attachment before judgment is a person whose interests are affected within the meaning of Order 21, Rule 90 of the Civil Procedure Code, when the property attached has been sold in execution of a decree obtained by another person. On the 30th November, 1932, the petitioner obtained an order for attachment before judgment in respect of certain immovable property belonging to the second and third respondents and on the 3rd July, 1933, a decree was passed in his favour. Some three weeks before the decree was passed the first respondent caused the attached property to be sold in execution of a decree which he had obtained against the second and third respondents. On the 8th July, 1933, the petitioner filed a petition in the Court which had ordered the sale (the Court of the District Munsif of Tuticorin) asking that the sale should be set aside on the ground that there had been material irregularity. The District Munsif held that the petitioner was not a person who came within the section and dismissed the application. The petitioner appealed to the Subordinate Judge of Tutic