Falk v. Frandsen

TEIGEN, Judge.

The defendants have appealed from a judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff for wages and awarding the plaintiff attorney’s fees under Section 34-06-16, N.D.C. C. This section provides that if a woman or minor worker shall be paid by the employer less than the minimum wage, as established by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor, such worker may recover in a civil action the difference “together with such attorney’s fees as may be allowed by the court.”

The case was tried to a jury. It returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $51.20 and thereafter the…