Pandalai, J.

1. The plaintiff appeals from a decree in a suit for maintenance brought by her against respondent 1, her husband, and respondent 2, her husbands elder brother by birth. Her suit was based upon the allegation that both the respondents form members of an undivided family, that she had been deserted by her husband and that therefore she was entitled to future maintenance an arrears of maintenance for 12 years before the suit at the rate of Rs. 50 a month. The learned Subordinate Judge of Rajahmundry found that the defendants though brothers by birth no longer belonged to the same family because defendant 1 had been adopted away by the widow of his paternal uncle Raghavaeharyulu and that therefore the plaintiff had no claim for maintenance against defendant 2 whose father had himself been adopted away to another family. As against defendant 1 the learned Judge found on the first issue that the plaintiff was the second wife of defendant 1 the first wife having predeceased the second marriage, that soon after the plaintiff came of age quarrels-arose as a result of which the plaintiff was taken away by her father to his own house in or about 1909, that in 1914 the pla