Berg v. Standard Light Co. of Cal.

Action to recover for work and labor performed. The complaint alleges in substance that defendants employed plaintiff, together with others named F. McNeil, Joseph Beechler, Wm. H. Brockett, and Wilfred Brockett, respectively, to work and labor for defendant Standard Light Company at certain agreed wages per week. The company was not in a prosperous condition and it was unable to pay said persons their wages in full at the close of each week. Partial payments were made, but the com pany kept getting farther and farther behind in the payment of the workmen until June, 1922-, when the company…