Pandrang Row, J.

1. These arise out of O.S. No. 46 of 1929 on the file of the Subordinate Judge of Tanjore. The Revision Petition is for the purpose of revising the order passed by the Additional Subordinate Judge dismissing the application of the plaintiff for amendment of his plaint and the appeal is from the decree dismissing the suit itself with costs on the ground that it was not maintainable. The suit was by one Sambasiva Aiyar who claimed one-third of the share of the first defendant in a certain firm described as the K.A.Rm.N. Firm. The share in the firm originally belonged to an undivided Hindu family. The plaintiff is the son of one Krishna Aiyar. Defendants 2 and 3 are the grandsons of one Sundarappier by his deceased son, while the first defendant is one Natesa Aiyar. These three persons Krishna Aiyar, Natesa Aiyar and Sundarappier were brothers. The fourth defendant is the other partner in the firm of K.A.Rm.N. which carried on a money lending business and the plaintiffs case was that this share in the money lending business belonged to the family and that this particular asset of the family was not divided at the time of the partition of the remaining family pr