Sadasiva Aiyar, J.

1. The plaintiff is the petitioner in revision. He brought this Small Cause Suit in the Nilgiri Subordinate Judges Court for the salary due to him from 1st April 1908 to 20th March 1909 at Rs. 18 a month or Rs. 216 a year. His engagement was for one year from 1st April to 31st March 1909. The Subordinate Judge has found that the plaintiff left the defendants service without justification on 20th March 1909. He also found that though the salary was fixed at Rs. 18 a month, the engagement was for one full year and his salary was agreed to be payable in a lump sum of Rs. 216 at the end of the year. On these findings, he held that according to the rule of law established by English decisions and followed in Dhumee Behara v. Sevenoaks 13 C. 80 the plaintiff lost all right to wages for the 11 months and 20 days during which he actually worked. The principle of the rule, as stated in the English cases, is that the contract must be deemed an entire indivisible contract and the performance of the services for the whole time agreed upon was in the nature of a condition precedent to the right to recover even a portion of the wages. "It is a general rule applicable to