1. This is a plaintiff's second appeal against the judgment and decree dated 27th April, 1966, passed by the learned District Judge, Meerut, dismissing his suit for the recovery of Rs. 1500/-.

2. The plaintiff - appellant had filed a suit for the recovery of Rs. 1,500/- on the basis of a pronote and a receipt dated 11-6-1962 for Rs. 1,000/- alleged to have been executed by the defendants and carrying an interest at the rate of one and a half per cent per mensem. Nothing was said to have been paid towards this loan.

3. The defendant No. 1 alone contested the suit, inter alia, on the grounds that the defendants neither borrowed any amount nor executed the pronote and the receipt in suit; that the plaintiff had to get a joint wall of the parties re - constructed and the defendants were to bear half costs. In that connection the plaintiff obtained their thumb impressions on blank papers.