Yardley v. Iowa Electric Co.

The first and essential proposition presented by this appeal involves the terms and provisions of the oral contract of employment between plaintiff and defendant. That the plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant company as a stoker at its gas plant is not m dispute. The primary denial on the part of the company concerns the claim of the plaintiff that he was to be paid for his time in service in excess of an 8-hour day and the evidence in this particular is in sharp conflict.

Plaintiff testifies that the manager of the defendant company told him when he re-entered upon his work on April…