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Tikah Sahib, Rajah of Patalia, as a birthday present
by his secretary, Sham Shir Sing. The perambu-
lator was to be painted dark green and old gold,
which were the colours of the Rajah, and there was
to be a good strong musical-box under the seat, and
also an automatic arrangement by which the per-
ambulator, on being wound up, would run by itself.
This order was given to the defendants by the
on was to
plaintiffs July 4, and the perambulator
be ready for shipment to Bombay by Aug. 15, in
order that it should reach the Rajah by Oct. I,
which was the date of his The defendants
birthday.
did not finish the work in and the
time, Rajah's
birthday had passed before the present arrived, and
then the secretary refused to take it, and it had to
be sent back. In the meantime the defendants had
drawn a bill upon the plaintiffs for the price of the
and this the had
perambulator, plaintiffs accepted
and had paid the money, which they were now
suing to recover. For the defence it was stated
that the cause of the delay in delivering the per-
ambulator was Mr. F. Fischer's interference. The
wheels and springs of the perambulator, it had
been agreed, should be electro-plated, but when
Mr. Fischer heard this he said it would not suit the
Rajah, and they must be gilded. He was told this
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