Cyr v. Board of County Commissioners

GOLDEN, Justice.

Appellant Vernon Edgar Cyr challenges an order granting summary judgment to appellee, Board of County Commissioners of Platte County (County), in his action for overtime compensation. Cyr’s primary argument is that the oral contract by which he and his wife (not a party to the action) provided jailer and matron services to Platte County violates W.S. 27-5-101 (June 1987 Repl.) and is therefore void. On that assumption Cyr then asserts that he is entitled to a remedy of compensation for hours worked beyond eight hours a day and forty hours a week. After careful review of the…