Chester v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “"Proceeding to a consideration of plaintiff's claims to statutory penalties, we first observe that the statutory provisions above cited have uniformly been held, in a long line of decisions, to be coercive or penal in nature, therefore to be strictly construed and yielding in interpretation and application to equitable defenses, Bielstein v. Hawkins, [La. App.] 50 So.2d 523 ; Oiler v. Bender, [La.App.] 146 So. 780 , and the numerous cases cited therein. The settlement and payment required are enforced by the statute and predicated upon the resignation or discharge of the employee. We have been unable to find a single evidential fact in this record which would indicate that this plaintiff either resigned or was discharged. As best we can determine the last day he worked was May 1, 1952. He was not paid until May 5, 1952, and then by a `hot' check which was evidently made good on May 20, 1952. Plaintiff repeatedly testified that defendant had asked him to `return' to work, but that he had refused until, as he expressed it, he received his `back pay'."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Collins v. Joseph