1. This is a defendants appeal against a decree for Rs. 5,912/- with proportionate costs and future interest granted in favour of the plaintiff-firm Roor Chand Kura Mal. The said firm had a cash credit account with the Uklana pay office of the defendant-bank which has its head office at Bombay. On 21-1-1947, the plaintiff-firm gave a hundi for Rs. 5,300/- to the Uklana pay office together with a railway receipt of 245 bags of gram for realisation from Messrs. Guranditta Mal Saudagar Mal of Anjera, District Campbellpur, and on the same date credit was given to the said firm for the aforesaid amount in their account. The Uklana pay office sent the hundi along with the railway receipt to the branch of the defendant-bank at Rawalpindi for realisation from the drawee-firm. The Rawalpindi Branch contacted the drawee-firm who insisted that the aforesaid documents be sent through the Oriental Bank which had its head office at Rawalpindi and a branch office at Tamman, a town which was at a distance of about 17 miles from Anjera, and with which the drawee-firm had dealings. On 1-2-1947, the Rawalpindi branch of the defendant-firm sent a telegram to the Uklana pay office, intimating t