Rousseau v. Ed White Junior Shoe Co.

This is an action by the appellant to recover back wages and a penalty under our statute requiring a corporate employer to pay a discharged employee his wages within seven days after the discharge. Ark. Stats. 1947, § 81-308. There was a verdict for the plaintiff for $9.38 as back wages, but the court had instructed the jury that no penalty could be recovered. Whether the latter charge was correct is the only question now presented.

Before this controversy arose Mrs. Rousseau had worked for the appellee off and on for several years, having quit her job on three or four occasions and having…