JUDGMENT : RAFIQ, J.:— This is an application in revision from a decree of the Small Cause Court Judge of Dehra Dun. Mrs. Bachman, the respondent, had employed Mrs. Simpson, the wife of the applicant, as house-keeper to manage the boarding house belonging to Mrs. Bachman. In August 1913, Mrs. Simpson severed her connection with the boarding house. Mrs. Bachman sued her and her husband for the recovery of Rs. 346-7 on the allegation that Rs. 56 bad been advanced to Mrs. Simpson with the consent of her husband which had hot been repaid and the balance had been misappropriated by Mrs. Simpson during the time that she acted as house-keeper. 2. The claim was resisted by both the defendants. The husband denied his liability on the ground that he was not liable for any acts of misappropriation of his wife. The learned Judge of the Small Cause Court decreed the claim against both the defendants. 3. He held that the husband was liable because he had allowed his wife to act as house-keeper to Mrs. Bachman. Mr. Simpson comes up in revision to this Court and contends that he is not liable for the sums misappropriated by his wife inspite of his having allowed her to take up the service of Mrs. Bachman as house-keeper. I think that the contention for the applicant must prevail. The husband cannot be made liable for acts of misappropriation of his wife simply because he has allowed her to take up service, vide, the Law of the Domestic Relations by William Pinder Eversley, Third Edition, p. 282, last paragraph. With regard to a portion of the claim I find that the applicant had undertaken to repay it, viz., Rs. 50 which had been advanced to his wife, vide, Exhibit 4. 4. The application, therefore, prevails with regard to Rs. 296-7. I modify the decree of the court below by dismissing the claim of the plaintiffs to the extent of Rs. 296-7 as against Mrs. Simpson defendant No. 2. Costs of this application are allowed to the applicant.