MODI, J.—This is a civil regular first appeal by the defendant Champalal from a judgment and decree of the Senior Civil Judge, Merta, dated the 30th April, 1955, in a suit for money.

2. The plaintiffs case, briefly put, was that on the 25th January, 1947, the defendant had borrowed a sum of Rs. 10,000/- from the former and had executed a receipt Ex. 1 for it on the same date and that he had also executed a promissory note on that very date in favour of the plaintiff. It was also alleged that the defendant had agreed to pay interest at the rate of 6%, per annum on the principal sum aforesaid. It was further alleged that the defendant had paid a sum of Rs. 2750/- as interest for he period from the 25th January 1947 to the 25th August, 1951, which fact had been acknowledged by him in his letter dated the 20th September, 1961, Ex. 7. The case of the plaintiff further was that in the meantime he had many a time pressed the defendant to repay the loan as a result or which the latter sent the plaintiff a number of letters, which are Exs. 2 to 6, and are respectively dated as the 13th January, 1948, 19th October, 1949, 5th December, 1949. 30th January, 1950, and 16th September, 1950, wherei

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