Liliopoulos v. Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Albertson, J., entered June 25, 1914, upon the verdiet of a jury rendered in favor the plaintiff, in an action on contract.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
In the early part of April, 1913, the appellant railway company employed the respondent to work as a laborer in an extra force or “gang” of men engaged in grading and repairing the appellant’s line of railway near Enaville, in the state of Idaho. The respondent was to receive $1.75 per day for his services, from which there was to be deducted fifty cents per month for the appellant’s hospital fund. The respondent was a Greek, as were the others of the force of men with whom he labored, and as was the foreman who directed his labor and by whom he was employed. April 27, 1913, was known as the…
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