Irvine Co. v. California Employment Commission

Plaintiff instituted several actions under section 45.10 of the Unemployment Insurance Act (Stats. 1935, p. 1226, as amended; Deering’s Gen. Laws, 1937, Act 8780d) for the refund of certain contributions paid under protest in 1939, 1940 and 1941, upon the theory that the services performed constituted “agricultural labor,” and that the 1940 amendment to the commission’s rule 7.1 is invalid insofar as it would exclude such services from the concept of “agricultural labor,” a base exception under the act. The actions were consolidated for trial, judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff, and…