MOHAPATRA, J.

( 1 ) THIS is a plaintiff's First Appeal against the judgment and decree dated 14-51949, of Sri B. S. Patnaik, Additional Subordinate Judge of Cuttack, in a suit brought by the plaintiff for recovery of arrears of maintenance, for future maintenance, and for recovery of the value of gold and silver ornaments alleged to have been forcibly kept back from the plaintiff by the defendants. Defendant No. 1 is the husband of the plaintiff and defendant No. 2 is the father of defendant No. 1. Admittedly the plaintiff and defendant No. 1 married in the month of Baishakha, 1943. The plaintiff left the defendant's house in Ashardha, 1944 and has not gone to her husband's place since then. The further admitted feature of the case is that defendant No. 1 married another wife in Ashardha, 1945. The plaintiff's case is that she comes of a fairly well-to-do family, her father being an Union President and also a contractor. The defendants are also sufficiently rich owning properties valued at rupees fifty thousand and defendant No. 1 is also serving under the government of Orissa on a salary of nearly seventy rupees. At the time of her marriage, her father gave her dowry of gold and