People v. Transit Development Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Transit Development Company, from a judgment of a Court of Special Sessions held by a city magistrate of the city of New York rendered on the 23d day of October, 1916, convicting the defendant of violating section 8a of article 2 of the Labor Law. (See Consol. Laws, chap. 31 [Laws of 1909, chap. 36], § 8a, added by Laws of 1913, chap. 740, as amd., by Laws of 1914, chaps. 388, 396, and Laws cf 1915, chaps. 321, 357, 648.)
1Opinion of the Court
Stapleton, J.:
The Transit Development Company, a subsidiary corporation of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, is engaged, at its Kent avenue power house, in generating and supplying electricity for the operation of the several lines, street and elevated, of that railroad system. In the basement, closed in by “ a little curtain wall,” there is a machine shop, operated by power, where small parts, such as pistons and valve rods, are made and kept in stock for use when needed, and where old parts are repaired. The shop is used principally for emergency purposes. The machinists there employed…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Schapp v. . BloomerNew York Court of Appeals · 1905
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