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SCOTTISH_SLR_Court_of_Session
Page: 637↓
Court of Session Inner House First Division.
[Sheriff of Lanarkshire.
v.
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.