Knight v. Missouri, Pacific Railroad Company
| Decision Date | 05 October 1925 |
| Docket Number | 156 |
| Citation | 275 S.W. 704,169 Ark. 397 |
| Parties | KNIGHT v. MISSOURI, PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY |
| Court | Arkansas Supreme Court |
Appeal from Independence Circuit Court; Dene H. Coleman, Judge affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.
W K. Ruddell, for appellant.
Thos B. Pryor and H. L. Ponder, for appellee.
Appellant, an employee, brought suit against appellee, a railroad corporation operating in this State, in the circuit court of Independence County to recover alleged monthly shortages covering a considerable length of time, which the company refused to pay him. It was alleged that the total shortages and overtime amounted to $ 59.25, and that he was entitled to sixty days' pay at $ 3.60 per day as a penalty under § 7125 of Crawford & Moses' Digest for discharging him without paying said amount. The suit was brought on March 10, 1923, almost two years after the last alleged monthly shortage.
Appellee filed an answer, denying the material allegations in the complaint and pleading payment of all it owed appellant.
Appellant testified that appellee failed to pay him the full amounts due him in the months of February, June, July, September, and October, 1920, and January and June, 1921; that the several items of shortage and the overtime he worked amounted to $ 59.25. Upon his cross-examination, appellee introduced seventeen monthly checks, which appellant identified as payments made to him by appellee covering the period of alleged shortages. The checks, except as to dates and amounts, contain the following provision:
"Pay to the order of David Knight $ 38 for services rendered during the month of February, 1920."
At the conclusion of the testimony, appellee asked for an instructed verdict, which the court gave over the objection and exception of appellant. The court then rendered a judgment in accordance with the peremptory instruction, from which an appeal has been duly prosecuted to this court.
Appellant contends for a reversal of the judgment because appellee did not plead accord and satisfaction, and because the checks did not purport to be payments in full. The checks were introduced in the case for all purposes without objection and, in view of these facts, the court had a right to treat the answer as amended to conform to the facts. If the checks amounted in fact to an accord and satisfaction, it was proper for the court to treat the answer as amended to show that fact....
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