Yick Wo v. Underhill

Appeal from an order denying a new trial. Plaintiff was the keeper of an eating-house at Mojave, and Underhill, deceased, was a saloon-keeper and ice dealer in the same town. Plaintiff issued meal tickets representing twenty-one meals for a consideration of $5. Some of Under-hills employees took their meals at plaintiff’s place of business. For these meals tickets were issued to Underhill and he delivered the same to his employees, and when he settled with them he took from their wages the price of the meals so furnished by plaintiff.

The court finds that the price and value of such meals so…