Cox v Electricity Supply Board (No. 2)

JurisdictionIreland
Judgment Date01 January 1943
Date01 January 1943
Docket Number(No. 2).
CourtSupreme Court

Supreme Court.

(No. 2).
Cox v. Electricity Supply Board (No. 2).
FRANCIS ARTHUR COX
Plaintiff
and
THE ELECTRICITY SUPPLY BOARD
Defendants

Practice - Judgment "- Liberty to apply" - Amendment of statement of claim - Whether power to amend after judgment - Plaintiff seeking only declaratory relief in statement of claim - Declaration that purported dismissal of plaintiff from office was ultra vires, void and of no legal effect - Order granting declaration and giving liberty to apply - Application made subsequently to amend statement of claim so as to include a claim for salary and bonus - Whether plaintiff entitled to amendment under liberty to apply. - Rules of the Supreme Court (Ir. 1905), Or. XXVIII, r. 1.

Motion on Notice.

In an action brought by him against the Electricity Supply Board (reported ante p. 94) the plaintiff, Francis Arthur Cox, obtained an order from the High Court declaring that an order made by the Board on the 19th September, 1933, purporting to remove him from the service of the Board, was ultra vires, void, inoperative and of no legal effect. The order of the High Court also directed an enquiry as to damages suffered by the plaintiff by reason of the dismissal, and gave him liberty to apply.

On appeal by the Board to the Supreme Court the declaration in favour of the plaintiff (which was all he sought in his statement of claim) was affirmed, but so much of the order of the High Court as directed an enquiry was discharged by the Supreme Court.

Subsequently the plaintiff applied by notice of motion to Gavan Duffy J. for an enquiry as to what sum was due to him from the Board, in respect of salary and bonus, for the period from the date of the purported dismissal. On the hearing of that application Gavan Duffy J. gave the plaintiff liberty to serve an amended notice of motion to have his statement of claim amended.

By an amended notice of motion, dated the 18th December, 1941, the plaintiff applied to amend his statement of claim in the following respects:—

"By adding after paragraph 3 thereof the following paragraph:—

3a. At the date of the said dismissal the plaintiff was receiving and was entitled to salary at the rate of £281 5s. 0d. a year together with bonus thereon calculated according to the Cost of Living Index figure.

At all times since the date of said purported dismissal the plaintiff has been and remains ready and willing to discharge the duties of his office and employment. The defendants have not paid to the plaintiff any sum of money in respect of his salary or bonus since the 1st day of September, 1933, and there is now due and owing to the plaintiff from the defendants after making all just allowances, the sum of £2,836 12s. 1d. in respect of such salary and bonus from the 1st day of September, 1933, to the 13th day of February, 1941, as more specifically set out and calculated in the particulars as in paragraph 7 of the affidavit of plaintiff herewith furnished.

By adding to paragraph 4 thereof the following sub-paragraphs:—

(2) If necessary, an inquiry as to what sum is due by the defendants to the plaintiff in respect of salary and bonus from the 1st day...

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