Claude S. Bennett Inc. v. Bollinger

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Upon the trial, the evidence relating to the terms of the oral contract between the parties was in shp.rp conflict, but the judge, of course, had the authority to resolve that issue of fact in favor of the plaintiff. However, the defendant introduced in evidence section 5 of the 1942 act of Congress, known as the stabilization of wages and salaries act, which authorized the President of the.United States to promulgate regulations to stabilize salaries and wages. Said section provides: “No employer shall pay and no employee shall receive wages or salaries…