( 1 ) THE only point in this Revision Petition is whether Exhibit A-1 is an acknowledgment of liability which requires a stamp under Article 1 of Schedule 1-A of the Stamp Act, as amended in Madras, and therefore ought not to have been admitted in evidence. There is no other defence to the plaintiff s action now remaining.

( 2 ) THE petitioner filed the suit, out of which this revision petition has arisen, for recovery of a sum of Rs. 234-3-0 and other incidental reliefs. The defendant was supplied with articles from time to time in the plaintiff s coffee-hotel and eventually a sum of Rs. 234-3-0 became due and payable by the defendant. On the 3rd of february, 1953, the defendant signed in the account-book of the plaintiff. To a registered notice by the plaintiff demanding recovery of this amount, the defendant sent no reply. In the written statement filed by "him, the defendant admitted the fact that he became indebted to the plaintiff on account for the foodstuffs which were supplied to him or to his son but he pleaded that he paid the plaintiff a sum of Rs. 100 on one occasion and another sum of Rs, 200 on, another occasion. The learned district Munsif found against the defendan

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