JUDGEMENT :-The short point for decision in this appeal is as to whether the document in suit is a promissory note or acknowledgement of liability with an agreement to pay.

2. Brief facts giving rise to the present appeal are that firm Chunni Lal Tukki Mal who are the appellants in the present appeal filed the suit against another firm Mukat Lal Ram Chandra on the allegation that the plaintiffs firm was a joint Hindu family firm carrying on business in grain in Eazar Puranagani at Sikandarabad and the defendants' firm also carried on business in grain, Gur etc., at Sikandarabad district Bulandshahr. It was alleged that the defendant No. 2 a branch firm of defendant No. 1 carried on business at Ghaziabad, Meerut. It was alleged that the defendant Ram Chandra and one deceased Mukal Lal were the partners of the above mentioned firms and the defendants Ratan Lal and Rameshwar Dayal carried on the business of the firm Ratan Lal Rameshwar Daval at Ghaziabad, Meerut. for and on behalf of defendant No. 1 and that the plaintiff carried on its business in forward delivery transactions in Gur and other commodities through the commission agencies of the defendants Nos. 1 and 2. These transactio

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