MADRAS HIGH COURT
Judge, J
Jevarathnammal v. P. Sreenivasa Mudaliar
1. This appeal arises out of proceedings under the Hindu Marriage Act (25 of 1955). The appellant is the wife of one P. Srinivasa Mudaliar. He filed an application, for restitution of conjugal rights. This was resisted by the wife, the appellant herein, who has no objection to live with her husband, but she has been subjected to cruelty and that it is, therefore, unsafe to live with her husband.
2. The lower court, after considering the oral and documentary evidence in the case, gave a finding that there was no cruelty on the part of the husband and as such the appellant (wife) was bound to go and live with the husband, and directed the wife accordingly, and ordered the application as prayed for by the husband. It is against this order of the restitution of conjugal rights that the present appeal has been filed by the wife.
3. Briefly stated, the facts are these. The appellant was married to the respondent herein on 4-2-1957. The respondent seems to be an educated man. He is working as an accountant in the Southern railway. Soon after the marriage, the husband and wife seem to have lived happily for some months. When the sister of the husband, who seems to have some influence over
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