Hazel v. Robinson & Young

HIGGINS, Justice.

Plaintiff, a carpenter, sued his employers to recover the sum of $4.50 for wages due him and also the sum of $9 as assignee of the wages of two other carpenters, for services alleged to have been rendered on November 4, 1935; and for a like amount, as statutory penalty, under Act No. 150 of 1920, for each day from the date that the employees were discharged until the full amount is paid or tendered.

The defendants denied that the plaintiff and his assignors were discharged by them and averred that their services were temporarily dispensed with on account of lack of work, and…