WIG AND GOWN

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 347, 1 August 1885, Page 11

WIG AND GOWN

[This column is intended to supply a want. There are some matters of legal information which, are of special interest to many classes of the community ; these will be supplied in this column. It is desirable that leading cases and decisions should he brought before the public in such a shape that they can understand them ; this we purpose week by week to do in this column for our xeadei'3. Every English subject is supposed to know the Jaw, but most Englishmen ai*e content to find it out through their lawyer, although the contentment hardly extends to paying the bill for the advice. In this column will be answered by competent authority any legal queries that may be sent us by our readers, so long as they are sufficiently concise to be dealt with in the space at our command. Thu we propose to make of this column the People's Complete Lawyer, embracing legal facts, legal gossip, an legal information on points of law useful to the publi Our readers are invited to take advantage of th column by sending any queries they may desire to hay answered, All questions that reach ns by Tuesda morning will, if possible, he answered in the sani week's issue!

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. "W." (GKsborne) -writes: — Will you kindly inform me how to proceed in the following case : — I was -working for A. on a contract, taken by him from our County Council. A . has filed, and the sureties will finish the contract. I have received no moneys on account of rnj labour; and either the sureties or the Official Assignee ■will receive the final payments of A. In what •way can I recover my wages ? [The -workman should at once serve a written notice of his claim upon the County Council, and also on the Official Assignee, as the employer is of course liable to pay out of his estate, and the County Council is responsible, should any money remain in their bunds on the completion of the work. Before issuing the notice referred to, he must apply to a Justice of the Peace for a summons against his late employer, and at the same time get leave to serve the notices referred to. Having done this, the parties served with notices must hold the money until judgment is obtained, then pay it so far as it will go.]