Modi, J.—This is a revision by the defendant against an order of the Civil Judge, Ratangarh, dated the 8th September, 1954, deciding a preliminary issue as the jurisdiction against the defendant.

2. The plaintiff is a partnership firm carrying on business in the name of Bilasrai Mannalal in Ratangarh. The defendant is a firm which carries on business as commission agents in the name of Purushottam Das Samal Das in Kotah. The plaintiffs case briefly was that one of its partner Banshidhar went to Kotah on the 17th July, 1953, and placed certain orders for the purchase of rice, dhania, barley etc. which the defendant firm. Certain payments were made by means of hundies by the plaintiff to the defendant. Disputes then arose between the parties and the plaintiff eventually filed the suit, out of which the present revision arises for the recovery of a sum of Rs. l769/13/- in the court of the Civil Judge, Ratangarh. The defendant in his jawabdava raised a number of please but the only plea which is relevant for the purpose of the present revision is that he raised an objection that the court at Ratangarh had no jurisdiction to enervation the present suit as the defendant admittedly lived i

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