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1926 Supreme(Mad) 557

CURGENVEN
Kanagammal – Appellant
Versus
Pandara Nadar – Respondent


ORDER

Curgenven, J.

1. In 1921 the petitioner applied for and obtained an order against her husband, the counter-petitioner, under Section 488 Code of Criminal Procedure for the payment of maintenance for her self and her daughter at the rate of Rs. 8 per mensem. Subsequently during the years 1922-23, she returned to the counter-petitioner and lived with him, bearing him another child. She then left him again and in 1924 applied to execute the maintenance order, but her petition was dismissed. Then she came up to this Court in revision, Criminal Revision Case No. 52 of of 1925 and Jackson, J., cancelled the Divisional Magistrates order rejecting her application, leaving it to him either to give her arrears under the old order or if it was found that the order was no longer in existence to let her file a fresh application. Accordingly on 22nd August 1925 she filed a petition for 11 months arrears of maintenance up to that date. The learned Sub-Divisional Magistrate in the order which it is now sought to revise, held that the reconciliation between husband and wife had brought the old order to an end automatically, so that it lay on the petitioner to adduce further proof that she was e





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