Ryan v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from special term, New York county. Action by Pierce Ryan against the city of New York to recover the difference between the amount paid for services as an employé in the department of public works and the amount he would have received had he been paid the prevailing rate of wages. From an interlocutory judgment sustaining a demurrer to the complaint, plaintiff appeals. Affirmed.
1DissentLaughlin, J.
The plaintiff alleges that prior to the ioth day of May, 1894, he was employed by the defendant, through its department of public works, as “rammer”; that his employment was for no definite or fixed term, and he received wages at the rate of $3 per day; that on said day the labor law (chapter 622, Laws 1894) became operative; that he was thereafter employed in the same capacity without definite term until the 1st day of January, 1900, and received compensation at the rate of $3 per day; that from and after the enactment of the labor law the prevailing rate of wages for this class of work in…
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