In re Morgan
Supreme Court of Colorado
Original Proceeding. At a preliminary examination before a justice of the peace, upon a charge of contracting to labor in a smelter in excess of eight hours per day, the defendant was committed to jail in default of giving the required bail; and to secure his liberty has filed in this court his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
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Original Proceeding. At a preliminary examination before a justice of the peace, upon a charge of contracting to labor in a smelter in excess of eight hours per day, the defendant was committed to jail in default of giving the required bail; and to secure his liberty has filed in this court his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The prosecution was under section 2 of “An act regulating the hours of employment in underground mines, and in smelting and ore reduction works, and providing penalties for violations thereof,” passed by the twelfth general assembly, the material provisions of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Campbell
The petitioner challenges the validity of the statute as inhibited by the foregoing clauses of the organic law. The position of the attorney general is that it was passed as a health regulation, and may be vindicated as coming within the range of the police powers of the state. Four years before it became an act, this court, to an inquiry of the house of representatives of the tenth general assembly as to the constitutionality of a bill reading, “ Eight hours shall constitute a legal day’s work for all classes of mechanics, working men and laborers employed in any mine, factory or smelter of…
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