Supreme Court of India

Patnaik & Company v. State of Orissa

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Reported as [1965] 2 S.C.R. 782
Bench P.B. Gajendragadkar J.
Decided 19 January 1965
Status Distinguished

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the answer to the question referred is G against the appellant.

Judgment, page 11

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The defendants contracted with the plaintiff to make and supply new boilers and certain new machinery for a steamship of the plaintiffs and to alter the engines of such steamship with corµpound surface condensing engines according to a specification. The specification contained elaborate provisions as to the fitting and fixing of new boilers and machinery on board the ship and the adaptation of the old machinery to the new. The boilers and other new machinery contracted for were completed, and ready to be fixed on board, and one instalment of £ 2000 had been paid under the contract, when the

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