A FOREMAN'S DISMISSAL

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 170, 19 July 1924, Page 6

A FOREMAN'S DISMISSAL

ELECTRIC AI, I-BM SUED, g & CASE NOT PROVED. 1 (By Telegraph.—Own Corr-spo-fr* I HAMILTON, this day. I Reserved judgment concerning * ■ ' liability of a company incurred bj g ■ dismissal of one of its employees* f| given try Mr. H. A. Young 53L, «■ H Hamilton, yesterday. The case was® H in which Mr. B. H. Andrews 6ued I» H bull and Jones, electrical engineers, W JM £180, of which £150 was for damap m for alleged wrongful dismiss-l, V* B balance being for breach of contract m pay the cost of the maintenance oi» | car. ti l- I i Plaintiff was appointed on JnlT >'• | ! 1923, by defendant company to act» | foreman at their Hamilton brancn, » g a salary at the rate of £300 »J&J I -left their employ on January 16, M* | ;Hc alleged that his contract of emPW B ment was for a year at least, and W |j he was wrongfully dismissed, f* 1 defendants denied that there **» _ » | contract for a year's *? 1 alleged that plaintiff was dis_-sse4i° g incompctencv. . _ ,_> fi His Worship held that plaintr- n» g failed to prove that there *U g definite agreement as to the duration" | employment, and that the § had failed to prove that' plamtiß " ■ incompetent. „ ,'„ Eg riaintilT was therefore nonsurtea ,m his claim for £150 for wrongful «.- 1 missal, and judgment was given wr » | for £20 for maintenance of his «r. |