People v. R. F. Stevens Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, R. F. Stevens Company, Inc., from a judgment of the Municipal Term of the Court of Special Sessions of the City of New York, borough of Brooklyn, Part II, rendered against it on the 22d day of January, 1917, convicting it of violating section 8a of article 2 of the Labor Law, in operating a factory for pasteurizing and bottling milk on Sunday, in that it required one Daniel Callaghan to work in the pasteurizing department, without posting and. filing…
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Appeal by the defendant, R. F. Stevens Company, Inc., from a judgment of the Municipal Term of the Court of Special Sessions of the City of New York, borough of Brooklyn, Part II, rendered against it on the 22d day of January, 1917, convicting it of violating section 8a of article 2 of the Labor Law, in operating a factory for pasteurizing and bottling milk on Sunday, in that it required one Daniel Callaghan to work in the pasteurizing department, without posting and. filing a schedule, as provided in subdivision 3 of said section. (See Consol. Laws, chap. 31 [Laws of 1909, chap. 36], § 8a,…
1Opinion of the Court
Blackmar, J.:
The question presented is whether an establishment for pasteurizing and bottling milk is a factory as that term is used in section 8a of article 2 of the Labor Law. The case was tried on the admission of defendant that it did operate such establishment by requiring Callaghan to work in the pasteurizing department on Sunday without posting and filing the required schedule, and that more than seven employees were engaged in -pasteurizing and bottling milk. If the establishment was a factory within the meaning of the section, the acts admitted constituted a crime. (People v.…
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