Yanta v. Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc.

This is a sex discrimination case. The principal issue raised on this appeal is whether the plaintiff-respondent, Delores Yanta, states a cause of action *55in her complaint filed in a civil suit commenced September 8, 1972, following her discharge on April 17, 1969, as a salesclerk for the defendant-appellant, Montgomery Ward & Company, Inc. On March 7, 1972, after proceedings charging a violation of secs. 111.31-111.37, Stats., were instituted by Delores Yanta, the discharge was found by the Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations to be an act of sex discrimination. The department…