I.D.Dua, J.

1. This judgment will dispose of Regular First Appeal No. 258 of 1958 and Regular Second Appeal No. 934 of 1958, both of them having arisen out of the judgment of the learned Senior Subordinate Judge, Ferozepore, dated 11th of February, 1957, which disposed of two suits together.

2. The short question, which calls for decision in the present controversy, relates to the right of widowed daughter-in-law and her minor daughter to claim maintenance from the formers father-in-law. It is common ground that Jal Kaur, plaintiff-appellant, in suit No. 356, had been married to Sadhu Singh, son of the defendant Pala Singh some time in the year 1940. Sadhu Singh died in 1949, leaving behind his widow Jal Kaur and a minor daughter Surjit Kaur. Surjit Kaur was the plaintiff in suit No. 357 and is the appellant in Regular Second Appeal No. 934 of 1958.

It is Jal Kaurs case that Pala Singh, her father-in-law, treated her very badly after the death of her husband and finally in 1954 turned her out of his house. Thereafter she has been living with her parents in the District of Bhatinda. She claimed maintenance, both, past and future, at the rate of Rs. 50/- P. M., the period for