Case ID: ky_305/html/0636-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Siler", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

International Shoe Company, a Corporation, v. Commonwealth of Kentucky.
    June 3, 1947.
    Joe L. Price, Judge.
    Waller Threlkeld & Whitlow for appellant.
    Eldon S. Dummit, Attorney General, and Guy H. Herdman, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
   Opinion op the Court by

Judge Siler

Reversing.

International Shoe Company, appellant, was convicted of the misdemeanor of deducting wages from its employees for time spent in voting, such wage deduction being an offense denounced by KRS 118.340. Following a judgment in favor of the Commonwealth, appellee, for a $100 fine for this offense, the appellant moved for this appeal.

The contentions of appellant, the legal question in issue, the factual situation in broad outline are the same as those involved in the case of Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. Commonwealth, 305 Ky. 632, 204 S. W. 2d 973, wherein we have this day written an opinion at length.

In harmony with our opinion in the Illinois Central ease, the motion for an appeal in this case is sustained and appellee’s judgment, for the reasons indicated in the Illinois Central opinion, is now reversed with directions for further proceedings consistent herewith.