Robinson v. St. Maries Lumber Co.
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from the District Court of the Eighth Judicial District, for Benewah Comity. Hon. R. N. Dunn, Judge. ' Action for wages and penalty. Judgment for plaintiffs. On learning that the men had quit, the defendants, though wronged, hastened to pay off the men. The law demands no more than reason dictates. (Wisconsin & Ark.
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APPEAL from the District Court of the Eighth Judicial District, for Benewah Comity. Hon. R. N. Dunn, Judge. ' Action for wages and penalty. Judgment for plaintiffs. On learning that the men had quit, the defendants, though wronged, hastened to pay off the men. The law demands no more than reason dictates. (Wisconsin & Ark. Lumber Co. v. Heaves, 82 Ark. 377, 102 S. W. 206.) The tenders made on the 28th and 30th of June and on the 3d of July stopped the running of the penalty, if the statute applied to such a case. (St. Louis By. Co. v. ° Bryant, 92 Ark. 425, 122 S. W. 996; St. Louis etc. By.…
1Opinion of the CourtBudge, J.
This is an action by respondents to recover from appellants wages earned as laborers in driving logs down the St. Maries River, and for the penalty provided for in C. S., sec. 7381.
On June 25, 1917, respondents ceased to labor and demanded their time from appellants’ foreman in charge of the work. They were each given a statement of the amount due them, payable at the Lumbermen’s State Bank, St. Maries. Thereupon they left the place of their employment and proceeded to the city of St. Maries, where respondents Steve Chasen, Geo. Kopp, J. Byrne, Oliver Daley and *710Frank Robinson indorsed and…
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