Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Burns

The plaintiff below, Michael Burns, defendant in error, was employed by the plaintiff in error as a day laborer, for whose services settlements were had monthly. “Pay checks” were issued upon which the employee was to receive the money due him for labor performed. It appears from the record that there had been delivered to him for his services by the paymaster of the company two “pay checks” aggregating $51.21, one of which reads as follows:

“No. 71509.

“Burlington & Mo. River R. R. in Neb. "

Omaha, November 30, 1895. $25.23

“J. G. Taylor, Asst. Treas. Pay to the order of M. Burns twenty-five…