Miller v. Component Homes, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a person is entitled to “buy his peace” during settlement negotiations “without danger of being prejudiced in case his effort should fail”
• noting, as reasons for excluding evidence of compromise, that offer of compromise implies merely a desire for peace, not a concession of wrong doing, and public policy favoring settlement of disputes
• evidence admissible to show employer’s intentional rather than inadvertent failure to pay
• “The act by its terms protects only ‘employees’—not independent contractors.” (discussing chapter 91A)
• designation of worker as independent contractor not conclusive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).