DRYSDALE v. NEW ERA STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LTD.

(1936) 55 Ll.L.Rep. 45

KING'S BENCH DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice MacKinnon.

Shipmaster-Dismissal without notice- Claim for six months' wages in lieu of notice or alternatively for damages for wrongful dismissal-Contention by defendant shipowners that they were justified in summarily dismissing the plaintiff on the grounds (inter alia) that he drank too much; that he neglected his duties as master; and that he was extravagant and spent too much on stores-Evidence of fellow officers of habitual drinking and of the effect upon his duties as master- Counterclaim by shipowners in respect of over-victualling.