SRINIVASAN, J.

1. The facts of this case remind us in a way of the story of Abram and Sarai in the old testament. Sarai was the wife of Abram, but she was barren. She requested her husband to have a child through her Egyptian handmaid Hagar. He complied with the request and got a son named Ishmael. But, with the blessings of God, Sarai begot a son by name Isaac. The Lord named Abram as Abraham and Sarai as Sarah. In the present case also, the first defendant, who is the first appellant herein married the first plaintiff Lakshmi Ammal, his sisters daughter in about 1947, They had no issue till about 1954. According to him, she requested him to marry again and have children. He agreed to that request and married another sisters daughter Munirathnammal, who is the second appellant second defendant. No doubt, the first plaintiff, who is the first respondent herein, denies that she wanted her husband to marry again. According to her, there was no such marriage and all on a sudden, her husband brought Munirathnammal to his house and she quarrelled with him and went out of her husbands house. But, in her evidence, she admits that all the members of the family including the plain