JUDGMENT - D.R. DHANUKA, J.:—This appeal is preferred by original defendant against decree dated 28th September, 1977 passed by the Bombay City Civil Court at Bombay in Suit No. 9048 of 1975. By the said decree, the trial Court directed the defendant to pay a sum of Rs. 3,560/- together with interest thereon at the rate of of 6% per annum from the date of the decree till payment and cost of the suit.

1A. The Court in informed by the learned Counsel on both sides that in view of the death of the appellant and original respondent No. 2 the heirs and legal representatives of the appellant as well as original respondent No. 2 have been brought on record of this appeal.

2. This appeal involves consideration of interesting questions of law as indicated in the later part of this judgment. The questions of law arising in this appeal are also of public importance to some extent. For the sake of brevity, the parties to the appeal are hereinafter referred to as the defendants and the plaintiffs. The basic question arising in this appeal concerns interpretation, applicability and legality of a printed condition on the reverse of "laundary receipts" issued by the proprietor of the laundary purp

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