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1. ““C.C. arts. 2207, 2208, and 2209 provide in essence that compensation takes place between two persons who are mutually indebted to the other whereby the debts are extinguished, provided that the debts are ‘equally liquidated and demandable.’ On the question of whether the respective obligations, i.e. the duty of the employer to pay final wages and the contractual obligation of the employee to liquidate his account out of final wages, meet the requirements for compensation under the articles of the Civil Code, we find they do. The sums involved here are for fixed amounts, known to both parties, and are equally demandable. Plaintiffs argues that R.S. 23:631 and 632 are special statutes dealing with a particular subject and therefore supersede the general articles of the Code pertaining to the extinguishment of debts by compensation. Accordingly, plaintiffs submit that defendant as any other creditor should ‘have proceeded via collection proceedings’ and that they were entitled to their wages under the statute. We disagree. Under the particular facts of this case we find nothing repugnant in the requirement of the instant employer for an employee to satisfy his account out of his last week’s wages, particularly where the employee has knowledge of the requirement and enjoys the advantages of special discounts.””

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