THE RIGHT TO A CHARACTER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 5997, 5 February 1881, Page 7

THE RIGHT TO A CHARACTER.

Tiik Insh Law Times brings us some strange intelligence, namely, that inDubliuthereisa "Court of Conscience ;" that it is held by an Alderman; that Irish Indies have tremble with their serving maids, and that when a servant leaves her employer she may legally demand a "character." On the .13th of October, before AUlerm.au Tarfey, Eliza Butler, a servant, summoned her "late employer, William Lawson, jeweller, Fleetstreet, for £1 compensation for refusing her a character when she left. But it seems that if the master was a jeweller, the servant was nOta "J cwel >" 'i"d yet she got a urood setting out. The Times says :—_\lr. Lawson said the plaintiff left of her own accord, under siteh circumstances that he thought himself entitled to refuse a certificate, tUrs. Lawson stated that while the plaintilV was in the house there was quite a reign of terror in it. She was a girl to whom they could not say the simplest thing without her threatening to leave directly. She came to witnes? house very ignorant; the greatest pains wero takeu to teach her, and make her as happy and comfortable as one of the children, and at the present moment she was standing in a pair of boots belonging to daughter. She finally got beyond herself and forgot herself, and the children could not ask for water, she would answer so dreadfully. Finally witness dismissed her. His lordship dismissed the case, holding that the defendant's action had been highly commendable, and that they were not obliged to give the plaiutitV anything more thau a certificate stating she had" lived with them a certain time.—Albany Law Journal.