IMMANENI PANDURANGA RAO, J.

( 1 ) WRIT petition is filed by a Senior Advocate for issue of a Writ of mandamus directing the respondent to pay Rs. 2,18,600/- (Rupees two lakhs eighteen thousand and six hundred only) together with simple interest at 12% per annum from 1st April, 1966 to the date of payment.

( 2 ) THE claim of the petitioner is that he worked as the Legal Adviser to Messrs jayanthi Shipping Company (hereinafter referred to as the company ) for the years 1961 to 1966; that he has been submitting a diary of work done for the company regularly for each year s work done, in the subsequent year: that the company was usually making payments in the next financial year for the work done in the previous year; that the company was taken over with its assets and liabilities by the respondent; that as such the respondent is bound to pay whatever sum is due to the petitioner from the company; that there was lot of correspondence between the parties; that the petitioner addressed several letters (the details of which are narrated in the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition) and the respondent by its letter dated 13-2-1990 has rejected petitioner s claim and that the resp

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