Morehouse v. Gulf Warehouse & Sales Co.

Eleven suits were brought against defendant by plaintiffs, before a justice of the peace of Alexander county, to recover wages claimed to be due and owing for labor and services rendered to defendant by plaintiffs while working upon the levee at Cairo during the flood times of January and February, 1937. Recovery was had before the justice and defendant appealed to the circuit court, where, after a hearing before the court without a jury, judgments were rendered in behalf of eight of plaintiffs for $120 each, together with costs and attorneys’ fees, and as to the other three plaintiffs the…