Legal Opinion
Polk v. Larrabee
Idaho Supreme Court
Decided December 15, 2000No. 25098PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KIDWELL, Justice.
This appeal results from the district court’s decision to treble damages on a jury verdict, which found in favor of the employees in a wage claim dispute. The employer claims that treble damages were not appropriate under the Idaho Code.
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FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
In November of 1994, Mickey Polk came to Idaho to discuss a job opportunity with Roy B. Laws and Robert D. Larrabee. Laws and Larrabee were opening a manufactured housing distributorship in Idaho called the Family Home Center. As compensation for running the new Nampa, Idaho, store, Polk would receive a…
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