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MISSOURI PAC. R.R. CO. v. AULT

No. 252.

256 U.S. 554 (1921)

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY ET AL. v. AULT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 1, 1921.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Robert E. Wiley, with whom Mr. Edgar B. Kinsworthy was on the briefs, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Frank Pace, for defendant in error, submitted. Mr. D.D. Glover and Mr. Jabez M. Smith were also on the brief.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

A statute of Arkansas provides that whenever a railroad company, or a receiver operating a railroad, shall discharge an employee, with or without cause, it shall pay him his full wages within seven days thereafter and that if payment is not duly made "then as a penalty for such nonpayment the wages of such servant or employee shall continue from the date of the discharge or refusal to further employ, at the...

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