St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. v. DeVoe

This cause came on to be heard upon a demurrer to the plaintiff’s amended complaint, the material portions of which read as follows: “That this plaintiff was employed by the defendant company through the first half of the month of August, 1920, as a laborer in the construction of a water tank and pumping station at Hoxie, Arkansas, his daily wage being five and 12-100 dollars for eight hours’ work, and this plaintiff worked in the first half of August, 1920, one hundred and ten hours, for which the said defendant owed him the sum of seventy dollars and forty cents, less hospital fees…