Anderson v. H. H. Trucking Co.

This is an action for compensation in which the only question is the fixing of the rate of wages upon which compensation should be based. Plaintiff, widow of the deceased employee, claims compensation based on alleged weekly wages of $26.75, while the defendants contend that the award should be fixed upon the basis of a six-day week of eight hours per day, at the stipulated wage of fifty cents per hour. By stipulation, Article VII of defendants' answer was accepted by the parties as correctly setting forth the rate of pay and the hours worked by the employee on the dates therein set forth.…