A. W. Kutsche & Co. v. Anderson

Defendant in error was employed by plaintiff in error as a common laborer in tbe construction of tbe United States post office in Knoxville, and was paid twenty-two and a balf cents per bonr for bis work. After receiving this stipulated wage, he brought this suit before a justice of tbe peace to recover additional compensation; his claim being that the work to which he was assigned carried a wage scale of forty cents per hour. Plaintiff in error filed its plea in abatement, based upon the fact that defendant in error had not referred the claim to the Secretary of Labor, as required by Act of…