V.P. Tyagi, J.-This is defendant’s first appeal against the judgment and the decree of the learned Additional District Judge No. 2, Jaipur City dated 21st September, 1974.

2. There is a building situate on the Mirza Ismail Road, Jaipur known as Bhagwat Bhawan. A part of this building was rented out to defendant M/s. General Auto Agencies for the rent of Rs. 425 per month. According to the plaintiff this part of the building was sold by the owners of the building to the plaintiff on 7th November, 1963, for Rs. 48,499, Shri Mangilal the proprietor of the building who sold it to the plaintiff wrote to the defendant on 7th December, 1968 that the premises had been purchased by the plaintiff , and, therefore, rent may henceforth be paid to the plaintiff This notice was received by the defendant firm on 13th December, 1968 and it is alleged that thereafter the defendant started paying rent at the rate of Rs. 425 per month to the plaintiff and continued to pay it till February, 1969. It appears that the plaintiff did not accept the rent after February, 1969 and the money orders sent by the defendant to the plaintiff towards the payment of the rent was refused by the plaintiff A n