( 1 ) THE plaintiff is the appellant. The suit out of which this second appeal arises was brought by the plaintiff against the respondent, who was the defendant in the suit, for the recovery of a sum of Rs. 4450-10-0 being the value of 17 tons of oil-cake said to have been supplied by the plaintiff to the defendant on 8-7-1951. The learned District Munsiff of Adoni who tried the suit accepted the plaintiffs case and decreed the suit with costs. On appeal, the learned District judge of Kurnool reversed the judgment and decree of the trial court and dismissed the suit.

( 2 ) THE case of the plaintiff is as follows :

( 3 ) THE plaintiff is the owner and proprietor of an oil mill at Adoni called "sree Maruthi Oil Mills, Adoni". He used to manufacture groundnut oil, oilcake and such other by-products, The defendant. which is a firm at Adoni represented by its managing partner Vitta Anjanayya, had been the plaintiffs customer from 1949 and was purchasing oil-cake from the plaintiff. On 6-7-1951 Vitta Anjanayya, the managing partner of the defendant-firm. Went to the plaintiffs mill and purchased from the plaintiffs clerk G. Urukunda Rao, in the absence of the plaintiff who was t