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Abstract
In the case of Allen v. Flood, one of the Lords asked this interesting question, If the cook says to her master, \u27Discharge the butler or I leave you,\u27 and the master discharges the butler, does the butler have an action against the cook? This, Lord Shand said, was the simplest form in which the very question in Allen v. Flood could be raised.4 And, like the original question, it puzzled the judges and Lords very much to answer
