JUDGMENT :- This civil revision petition is against the order of the learned District Munsif of Tiruvaiyaru in O.P. No. 25 of 1958, filed under S. 115 C. P. C. The facts are briefly these. The respondent in this civil revision petition filed an application under S. 19(1) of the Madras Village Panchayats Act, Act X of 1950, questioning the validity of the election of the respondent in the lower court as a member of the Panchayat board. The contention of the respondent before the lower court was that on the date of the nomination, namely, 6-5-1958, as well as on the date of election, namely, 7-5-1958, the petitioner in this civil revision petition was interested in a subsisting contract made by the panchayat board, Budalore in 1955 for constructing an overhead tank in the panchayat area. The petitioner was the President of the Panchayat Board during the lease period and entered into a contract with the board in his own personal capacity to construct a water tank and not in the capacity of President. The work assigned to the said petitioner was still incomplete and he had received only part of the amount due to him. It was also alleged that the work was done for the benefit o