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URL: http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/1880/17SLR0637.html
Cite as: [1880] SLR 17_637, [1880] ScotLR 17_637

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SCOTTISH_SLR_Court_of_Session

Page: 637

Court of Session Inner House First Division.

[Sheriff of Lanarkshire.

Wednesday, June 9. 1880.

17 SLR 637

Forsyth

v.

Heatheryknowe Coal Company.

Subject_1Master and Servant
Subject_2Colliery Manager
Subject_3Dismissal
Subject_4Notice — Wages.
Facts:

The manager of a colliery company, whose salary was £3, 15s. per week, was discharged in consequence of the discontinuance of the colliery. His employers offered him a fortnight's salary in lieu of notice. Held, looking to the nature of the relation between a colliery manager and his employer, and the practice in the neighbourhood, that three months' notice on either side was what was reasonable.

1880


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