Somayya, J.

1. The second defendant in the suit appeals against the decree of the District Judge of Ramnad making it liable to pay a sum of Rs. 4,000 and interest thereon to the plaintiff. The plaintiff-respondent had two cheques given to her by the Harvey Mills, Madura, both drawn on the Imperial Bank, one for Rs. 20,900 and another for Rs. 18,682-8-0. The plaintiff endorsed both these cheques in favour of the first defendant. We are not concerned with the cheque for Rs. 20,000. As regards the cheque for Rs. 18,682-8-0, the plaintiffs case is that she gave definite instructions that the first defendant should pay a sum of Rs. 5,000 odd due to the second defendant Bank by the plaintiff in respect of some pledge of jewels made on her behalf by the first defendant, that he should take Rs. 3,000 as a loan and execute a promissory note for that sum to the plaintiff, that a draft for Rs. 3,000 should be taken in the plaintiffs name payable on the Kulitalai Bank to be utilised for her own purposes, that Rs. 3,000 odd should be paid to the plaintiff in cash and lastly that a draft for Rs. 4,000 should be obtained from the appellant Bank in the name of the plaintiff payable in Madra