Garson v. Division of Labor Law Enforcement

This is an appeal from a judgment granting a writ of mandate commanding the defendants, State Division of Labor Law Enforcement of the Department of Industrial Relations and the State Labor Commissioner, to sustain a demurrer to and dismiss a proceeding pending before them.

James L. Saphier, referred to as an employment agent and artists’ manager, was engaged in the employment agency business. A dispute having, arisen between him and plaintiff, a writer, for whom Saphier was to obtain employment, the latter filed an application with the Labor Commissioner to have that dispute settled. Therein…