Wallace, J.

1. This is a connected series of four appeals arising out of a suit by the Guntur Cotton, Jute and Paper Mills Co. Ltd., against the two defendants, their former secretaries and treasurers, for a declaration that these defendants ceased to hold office from 31st March 1918, for an injunction restraining them from interfering with the management of the company, and for correct accounts and damages for the loss sustained by the company by reason of their several acts of fraud and. misappropriation. A preliminary judgment in the case was passed on 24th April 1922 and the final judgment on 4th April 1924. Defendant 1 had not appealed, but he was heard in his own case on the appeals by plaintiffs. Defendant 2 has preferred Appeal No. 75 of 1923 against the preliminary decree and Appeal No. 237 of 1924 against the final decree. The company has preferred Appeal No. 215 of 1923 against the preliminary decree and Appeal No. 457 of 1924 against the final decree.

2. Various matters fall to be dealt with in these appeals, the decision in which; as in the original trial, has not been assisted, but considerably hampered by the action of the plaintiffs in not clearly realizing be