(1.) This is a suit for recovery of Rs. 55,398/7/- for compensation for non-delivery of two consignments of Indian cotton twist yarn entrusted to the railway for carriage from Wadi Bunder and Ahmedabad, being stations on the G. I. P. Railway and B.B.C.I. Railway, to Raigarh, a station on the Bengal Nagpur Railway.
(2.) This suit was originally filed in the Court of the 4th Subordinate Judge, Alipore District, 24-Parganas, as Money Suit No. .9 of 1945 on 12th April, 1945.
(3.) The suit has been transferred to this Court by an order made under Clause 13 of the Letters Patent on 23rd of July, 1945.