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ALLEGED BREACH OF COIITRACT.
PROFESSIONAL BOXER'S SUIT.
SA3I McVEA CLAIMS £1,000.
Sydney, April 30.
The hearing was begun in the Banco Court
to-day, before the Chief Justice and a jury,
of an action brought by Sam McVea, a pro
fessional boxer, against the Stadium, Ltd.,
to recover £1,000 for alleged breach of con
tract.
The plaintiff's case was that he entered
into an agreement with the defendant com
pany, by which the latter agreed to pay him
25 per cent. of the gross receipts from box
ing contests in Australia, with a minimum
of £1.000. The plaintiff engaged in two
contests, but the defendant comnony had
paid hims only £673, and had refused to pay
the balance. In the second count the plain
tilff set out that in consideration of h:s en
gaging in five boxing contests on dates to be
fixed by the company w:thin nine. months
from July 12, 1912, the company promised to
pay him 25 ner cent. of the gross receipt",
with a guarantee of a minimum of £1.000
in the event of the 25 ner- cent. not amount
ing to, £1,000, and 25 Der cent. of the re
ceipts on all training exhibitions. The
plaintiff said that he had carried out tha
agreement on his part, and was wili:ng to
engage in the three remaining boxing'on
tests, but the defendant company. refused tf
fix dates, and had repudiated the agree
ment.
The defendant company npeaded, as to the
first count of the 's!aitiff's declaration, that
the olaintiff was not always ready and will
ing to perform his part of the agreement,
and also that it was a term of the agree
ment that, in the event of another company
taking over the defendant company's busi
ness during its currency, it was to be trans
ferred to the new company. The business of
the defendant company was subsequently
transferred to Reginald Baker, whereon the
defendant was discharged from the agree
ment. The defendant company also pleaded
that it was a term of the agreement that the
plaintiff should engage in five boxing con.
tests, and that he had not done so. As to
the second ~eunt of the plaintiffs declara
tion, the defendant company brought into
Court the sum of £23 4s. 5d. as sufficient.
The case stands part heard.:
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