Court Opinion

ID: 9865121
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 16:24:20.480782+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:37:26.788454
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.

Defendant’s contention that plaintiff was not in court with “clean hands” because it failed to pay the defendant’s wages earned for the last week of his employment cannot be sustained. A check payable to the defendant for $37.91, the full amount of said wages and part of the sum sued for in the cross-complaint, was tendered to the defendant and a receipt for all claims and demands against the Lantz Sanitary Laundry Company thereupon demanded. Nolan refused to sign the receipt; further refused to have his attorney prepare and deliver one, and refused to accept the check so tendered. At the time of defendant’s discharge, the plaintiff tendered and the defendant accepted two weeks’ wages in advance, in lieu of two weeks’ notice provided for in the contract. This payment was voluntary, the plaintiff being under no contractual obligation to pay it, and defendant, having accepted the same, ought not to be heard to say that the plaintiff was not in court with “clean hands,” because it required the defendant to sign a receipt for his last week’s wages, even though the plaintiff had no right to demand same.