Mitchell v. City of Chicago

The claim of the plaintiff is for 5385% hours overtime services rendered as a laborer for the defendant, the City of Chicago, from the first day of August, 1923, to the first day of September, 1927, when the plaintiff was discharged, which overtime is over and above the eight hours constituting a day’s work, and the total of said escess time is to be paid for at 1% times the daily wage earned; that during the time he was employed there was in full force apd effect an ordinance of the City of Chicago, sections 3276 and 3277, entitled, “Hours of Labor,” which provides that eight hours of labor…