Supreme Court · 1959 INSC 68 · Decided 7 May 1959
The Graham Trading CO. (India) LTD. v. Its Workmen
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1959 INSC 68 · [1960] 1 S.C.R. 107
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 161/1959
- Decided
- 7 May 1959
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, P.B. GAJENDRAGADKAR, K.N. WANCHOO (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
COURT REPORTS 107 THE GRAHAM TRADING CO. (INDIA) LTD. v. ITS WORKMEN (B. P. SINHA, P. B. GAJENDRAGADKAR and K. N. WANCHOO, JJ.) Industrial, Dispute-Puja Bonus-Customary and traditional payment of-Test. The appellant had been paying puja bonus to its workmen continuously from 1940 to 1952 at the years. The dispute arose regarding the payment of bonus in 1953· The workmen claimed that the sole object of bonus which had been grantecf to them upto that year was to meet puja expenses and that the payment of this bonus had become customary and a term of employment. The appel­
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