Anantakrishna Ayyar, J.

1. Plaintiff 1 was married by the defendant in 1904. He had two children by her, who lived until 1921; differences having arisen between plaintiff 1 and the defendant, the defendant divorced plaintiff 1 in February 1920. Between 1913 and 1920 plaintiff 1 and her two children were living separately from the defendant.

2. On the allegation that plaintiff 1 maintained herself and her two children out of the money borrowed from her brother-in-law plaintiff 2, she filed the original suit, making her brother-in-law plaintiff 2, to recover Rs. 1,244 from the defendant, being money borrowed for the maintenance of herself and the two children aforesaid; the amount is alleged to have been borrowed between May 1917 and February 1920, and the suit was filed on 8th April 1922. The defendant denied his liability. He also denied plaintiff 1s right to pledge the credit of the defendant and alleged that there was no lawful necessity to do so. He also pleaded that the suit was not maintainable at law and that the plaintiffs had no cause of action against him.

3. This is an unfortunate case; plaintiff 1 a Mahomedan lady had not proper legal advice in connexion with her su