Veerapatheran V. Proprietors Of Ekkeralla Estate

Present: Drieberg J.

VEERAPATHERAN   v.  PROPRIETORS   OF   EKKERALLA
ESTATE.

123-C. R. Ratnapura, 20,310.

    Master and servant-Action for wages by labourer-Quitting service without notice-Right of employer to forfeit wages-Time of payment-Ordinance No. 13 of 1889, s. 10.

A labourer, who has quitted service without notice, is entitled to maintain an action under section 10 of Ordinance No. 13 of 1889 to recover wages due for a completed term of service. In such a case the labourer may be paid his wages for the previous month at any time during the following month ; whereas, if he had given notice he would be entitled to payment on the termination of the contract.

THIS was an action instituted under section 10 of Ordinance I No. 13 of 1889 by a head kangany for himself and on behalf of fifty labourers employed on Ekkeralla estate against the pro­prietors of the estate for the recovery of wages for the month of June, 1927, amounting to a sum of Rs. 500. It was contended on behalf of the defendants that the plaintiffs were not entitled to then-wages as they had left the defendants' service without notice. The

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