Short v. Bullion-Beck & Champion Mining Co.
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from the Fifth District Court, Juab County, Hon. E. Y. Higgins, Judge. Action by plaintiff to recover an amount alleged to be the reasonable value of work and labor performed for defendant and claimed by plaintiff as overtime because he worked twelve hours a day in the mill and reduction works of defendant, when by the laws of the state, eight hours was a day’s labor in such places. From a judgment for defendant plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMiner, J.
Plaintiff: complains in his complaint: ‘ ‘ That between the first day of-June and the first day of November, 1896, plaintiff was employed in a mill owned and operated by the said defendant at Eureka City, State of Utah, for the purpose qf treating and reducing ore, by said defendant at the rate of $2.50 per day, and at defendant’s request.
3d. That the laws of the State of Utah, found on page 219 of the Laws of Utah for 1896, and section 1337 of the Revised Laws of 1898, an act regulating the hours of employment in underground mines, made eight hours a day’s labor in such places, which act is…
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