Falconio v. Larsen
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: E. D. Shattuck, Judge. The purpose of this action is to establish ninety-eight different and distinct claims, ranging in amount from $1.25- to $100, preferred by certain laborers and employees against the estate of E. S. Larsen, an insolvent debtor, for labor and services rendered the said Larsen within ninety days prior to the date of his assignment for the benefit of his creditors, and is prosecuted under the provisions of an act entitled “An Act to Protect…
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From Multnomah: E. D. Shattuck, Judge. The purpose of this action is to establish ninety-eight different and distinct claims, ranging in amount from $1.25- to $100, preferred by certain laborers and employees against the estate of E. S. Larsen, an insolvent debtor, for labor and services rendered the said Larsen within ninety days prior to the date of his assignment for the benefit of his creditors, and is prosecuted under the provisions of an act entitled “An Act to Protect Employees and Laborers in Their Claims for Wages,” approved February 20, 1891 (Laws, 1891, p. 82). Larsen was a…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Wolverton,
after stating the facts, •delivered the opinion of the court.
The principal question suggested by the controversy is touching the assignability of claims of laborers, the preferment of which the enactment is designed to promote. No contention is made but that the claimants might each for himself have prosecuted an action in his own name of the nature here adopted to establish his individual claim; but it is insisted that the preference which the law raises is a privilege strictly personal to the claimant, and one *142which he alone can exercise; that the mode or process by…
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