MODI, J.

( 1 ) THESE are two appeals by the defendant State against two separate judgments of the District Judge Bikaner of the same date that is tile 31st May, 1954, by which he decreed the suits of the two plaintiffs for damages for breach of certain alleged contracts of service. As these appeals raise precisely the same questions of law, this judgment will govern both of them.

( 2 ) THE salient facts of the two cases may be shortly stated as follows:

( 3 ) THE suit in appeal No. 77 of 1954 was filed by Laxminarain, a legal practitioner of the erstwhile Covenanting State of Bikaner and now an Advocate of this Court. His case was that ho had been engaged by the former State of Bikaner as an Assistant Government Advocate in 1931 and since then he had been in continuous employment as such or as Acting Government Advocate or as Government Advocate until October, 1947 in that State. The plaintiff had the option throughout this period to continue his civil practice. From November, 1, 1947, an agreement was entered into between him and the authorities of the Bikaner State according to which he accepted to work as Government Advocate on a starting salary of Rs. 400/-in the grad