Varadachariar, J.

1. This is an appeal by the South India Railway Company, wherein the company object to some of the items which have been allowed by the lower Court, out of the claim made by the plaintiff on the basis of a contract between his grandfather and the company, in connection with the construction of the Shoranur Nilambur Railway. A number of items were claimed, a specified in several sub-paragraphs of para. 11 of the plaint; some of them have been allowed by the lower Court and some disallowed. In the appeal before us the learned Counsel for the company has argued only four items. The contractor has also filed a memorandum of objections, taking exception to the lower Courts decision in respect of two items, namely, these claimed in sub-paras. 2 and 4 of para. 11 of the plaint,

2. The main item in dispute between the parties is the one claimed in sub-paras. I to 9 of para.11. There is no dispute as to the amount awardable, if the right of the plaintiff to make a claim under this head is upheld. The argument has therefore been mainly directed to the question of the plaintiffs right to make a claim under this head, on the footing on which he has made it. This in turn