JUDGMENT :- This is a suit for recovery of Rs. 13,031.87 nP. only in the following circumstances :

On April 20, 1960, or thereabouts, the plaintiff Snow White Food Product Company Limited (shortened hereafter, as far as possible, into "Snow White") entrusted, in Calcutta, the third defendant Shree Hanuman Transport Company, a firm doing the business of "a common carrier of goods for reward", with two consignments one containing 25 tins of S/c refined groundnut oil and the other containing 400 tins of S/c Balloon Brand Vegetable Product - for carriage by road to self (Snow White) at Raiganj and Islampur respectively in the district of West Dinajpur. The Transport Company - that is how I call the third defendant hereafter, as far as possible - "received and accepted" the two consignments "for reward" with a view to reaching them to their destination and to Snow White too, as desired. The contracts of carriage are evidenced by two consignment notes one bearing the number A 1202 for despatch to Raiganj, and another bearing the number A 1203 for despatch to Islampur. Dated April 20, 1960, both were issued by the Transport Company. At the trial, they have been marked exhibit B collectivel

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