Viscount Haldane:-

Their Lordships entertain no doubt that the judgment, on the appeal in this suit, of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, in favour of the plaintiffs, who are the respondents before the Judicial Committee, was right.

The suit was brought against the appellant, who is Raja of Aul, to recover the price of goods sold and delivered. The first plaintiff, Bhola Nath, was the dealer who supplied the goods, and the second plaintiff, Wahid Ali, was his agent in the transaction in question, and was the person to whom certain promissory notes were given. The claim was for Rs. 14,152-13-0 and interest. The appellant Raja succeeded to the Raj on the 21st March, 1905. The General manager of his estate, from a date just after his succession down to March, 1900, when the Raja dismissed him, was Prasanna Kumar Sen. A person who is still more important for the purposes of this appeal was Shankar Nath, who was "Kote'' manager until his dismissal in December 1909, with authority from the Raja, independently of the General Manager, to purchase and pay for all things required for the use of the Raja himself and his household. About this there is on the evidence no room for questio