DeRenzo v. Nichols

Action by an employee to recover from her employer, in accordance with General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 151, section 1, the amount due her as “a *314wage fairly and reasonably commensurate with the value of the service or class of service rendered”, less the amounts actually paid her by the employer as the weekly wage at which she was employed.

The plaintiff’s declaration sets forth that the plaintiff was employed at a wage of nine dollars a week and that that amount was “oppressive and unreasonable” wages as set forth in General Laws, Chapter 151, Sec. 1, and that “fifty cents an hour or $27.50…