The respondent who is the same in both the above revisions filed a suit O.S. No. 334 of 1966 on the file of the District Munsif’s Court, Tirupattur, against the petitioner herein (the Life Insurance Corporation of India) for recovery of a sum of Rs. 61746 being the commission due to him in respect of a policy for Rs. 20,000 in the name of one Dr. T. K. Ganesan which he had canvassed. His case was that he applied for a licence on 16th January, 1963 to act as an agent of the petitioner for procuring life insurance business, that on the assurance given by the Development Officer, Tirupattur, that he would be given commission for the business procured by him from the date of the application for licence he canvassed and obtained a proposal from the said Dr. T. K. Ganesan for a sum of Rs. 20,000 which proposal was ultimately accepted by the petitioner, and a policy No. 112511025 had been issued to him, but that contrary to the earlier assurance given by the Development Officer, the petitioner had refused to pay the commission due to him on the said policy.

2. The petitioner resisted the suit contending that it was true that the respondent sent in his application for appointment