JUDGMENT :- This is an appeal against the order of the District Judge, Coimbatore, on an application under S. 43 (1) of the Guardians and Wards Act, refusing to grant interim injunction restraining the 1st respondent the property guardian from handing over any portion of the income of the minors properties to the 2nd respondent who is the minors step mother or retaining any portion thereof for herself.

2. The matter has had a considerable amount of previous history and the circumstances in which this application came to be filed were briefly these. One Andavan Chettiar, the father of the minor concerned in this appeal, died on 12-3-1950 leaving considerable properties. This minor boy, by name Arunthavachelvam, was the sole issue of the deceased who left him surviving besides of course this minor child two widows Thayammal and Venkalakshmi Ammal, the former being the mother of the minor. The deceased also left behind him his own mother Kuppathal who is the appellant in this appeal.

Sometime after the death of Andavan Chettiar, the appellant filed O. P. No. 67 of 1953 under the Guardians and Wards Act, praying for the appointment of a guardian for the properties of the minor.