Oller v. Bender

MILES, Judge.

Plaintiff ws employed by defendant as a laborer under Charles Wallington, foreman, in the field near Cotton Valley, La. He worked eight and one-half days at a wage of $3 per day, until the job was completed on June 20, 1930. At the termination of the employment the workmen were given, by the foreman, orders in pencil, written and signed by him, on the defendant at his office in Shreveport, for the amount of their pay. For some unexplained reason Oiler interlined, in ink, in his own handwriting, on the penciled order given Elbert Ray, a fellow workman, his own name and the amount,…