WRONGFUL DISMISSAL
engineer awarded damages. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, March 11. Damages amounting to £l6lO and costs were awarded in the Supreme Court to-day to James Marshal, former superintendent engineer to Cable and Co., from whom he claimed £3OOO for alleged wrongful dismissal, and also asked judgment for a share or the net profits which be contended was due to him. The Chief Justice said the company had claimed that by reason of incompetence and negligence on plaintiff’s part dismissal was justified, but failed to prove it. He accepted .Marshall’s testimony against that of the defence whenever there was a conflict, and thought the company had only themselves to blame for the trouble, and therefore must pay l damages.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 128, 12 March 1935, Page 3
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