1. This is a suit to recover a sum of Rs. 71,000 on a contract of fire insurance on certain cotton bales which were destroyed by fire at Lasoor on 23-4-1952.

2. The plaintiff is the owner of various businesses carried on in the names and style of Narandas Chunilal and Chunilal Motilal including that of a cotton ginning and pressing factory at Lasoor in Hyderabad State. The business of the factory is carried on in the name of Narandas Chunilal. The Head Office of the plaintiff is at Jalna in Hyderabad State.