1. The appellant in this appeal is a partnership firm which does the work of building contractors. The respondent is the Gujarat Housing Board (which is hereinafter referred to as 'the Board') and which is the successor to Bombay Housing Board, against which this suit was originally filed by the appellant to recover the total amount of Rs. 2,46,641.06 with costs and interest. The suit was initially filed by the appellant in the court of Civil Judge, Senior Division, Ahmedabad, where it was registered as Jurisdiction Suit No. 65 of 1959. After the formation of the City Civil Court at Ahmedabad, it was transferred to that court where it was registered as Civil Suit No. 295 of 1961.

2. The dispute between the parties relates to two contracts taken by the appellant from the respondent in the year 1956 for the construction of 250 and 176 tenements for industrial labour in Ahmedabad at Mithipur Khokhra Mehmedabad.

3. The record of the case reveals that the respondent Board had undertaken 5 projects for constructing residential tenements for industrial labour at Ahmedabad. All the relevant details of these 5 projects are shown by the learned trial Judge in his judgment in a tabular form. T