JUDGMENT :

(Common Prayer: Second Appeal has been filed under Section 100 of CPC against the Judgment and Decree dated 26.09.2007 passed in A.S.Nos.188, 181 & 186 of 2006 on the file of the I Additional District Judge, City Civil Court, Chennai, confirming the Judgment and Decree dated 23.04.2004 passed in O.S.No.4672, 4639 & 4673 of 1999 on the file of the XIII Assistant Judge, City Civil Court, Chennai).

Common Judgment

1. S.A.Nos.1323, 1353 & 1354 of 2008 are directed against the common Judgment and Decree dated 26.09.2007 passed in A.S.Nos.188, 181 & 186 of 2006 on the file of the I Additional District Judge, City Civil Court, Chennai, confirming the Judgment and Decree dated 23.04.2004 passed in O.S.No.4672, 4639 & 4673 of 1999 on the file of the XIII Assistant Judge, City Civil Court, Chennai. respectively.

2. The second appeals have been admitted on the following substantial questions of law:

" i). Whether an unregistered firm can maintain a suit for recovery of money lend by the firm, when such lending was not in the normal course of business of the firm and when the appellant firm is an engineering concern?

ii). Whether the suit filed by the appellant was hit by Section 69(2) o