Sears v. Superior Court

The petitioners were convicted in the Justice’s Court of Angels Township, Calaveras County, of discharging an employee of their mine without first paying the wages which were due to him, in violation of the provisions of an act of the legislature regulating the payment of wages by private employers. (Stats. 1919, p. 294, and amendments thereto; 2 Deering’s Gen. Laws of 1931, p. 2241, Act 4743.) Each defendant was fined, with the alternative penalty of one day of imprisonment for each two dollars thereof in the event the fine was not paid. Upon appeal to the superior court the judgment was…