1. The plaintiff is the appellant. The suit was to recover money under two heads, Rs. 97 and interest due for the repairs to electric installation in the temple at Ernakulam and Rs. 2,510-8-0 for the complete electric installation of Sree Krishna Swami Temple at Chittur. The defendant is the Cochin Devaswom Board. The plaintiff's case was that he contracted with the defendant for executing the work of installing electric light in the Sree Krishna Swami Temple according to the specification given by the defendant. Ext. D-2 dated 12th March 1953 is the tender made by the plaintiff. The tender was accepted by the defendant under Ext. P-3 and the acceptance was on the definite understanding that the work must be completed by 10th Medam 1128. In pursuance to that, Ext. D-3 agreement was executed by the plaintiff on 19th March 1953. Ext. D-3 (a) is the order of the Board accepting the agreement. The work was completed by the plaintiff and he got a formal receipt of acceptance of work under Ext. P-6 on 12th Medam 1128. Thereafter the plaintiff sent three bills, Exts. P 7, P-8 and P-8 (a) for Rs. 2,545-8-0. as the bills were not honoured, the plaintiff instituted the suit after