Commonwealth v. Meyer

In this record are two cases—one against the Commonwealth of Virginia and one against the City of Richmond. In each relevant facts are the same, as is the law applicable thereto. By consent they were heard together, and the issues there made have been decided in one final order.

Leonard Meyer and his three brothers make up a partnership and are meat packers whose place of business is in Richmond. They have been engaged since 1926 in that business, inherited from their father. They employ about twenty-nine workmen and have now invested $177,748.53. Seemingly they are prosperous. Their methods…