People v. C. Klinck Packing Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal, by permission, from ari order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered October 22, 1914, affirming a judgment of the Erie* County Court which affirmed three judgments of the City Court of Buffalo convicting the defendant of violating section 8a of the Labor Law.
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Appeal, by permission, from ari order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered October 22, 1914, affirming a judgment of the Erie* County Court which affirmed three judgments of the City Court of Buffalo convicting the defendant of violating section 8a of the Labor Law. During- the month of December, 1913, the defendant was engaged in operating within the city of Buffalo a plant and factory for the killing of hogs and the preparation of meats in various forms for consumption. During-that time it caused or permitted some of its employees…
1Opinion of the Court
Hiscock, J.:
This appeal presents as its underlying question the important one whether the legislature may require that in certain occupations employees shall have twenty-four consecutive hours of rest in every seven days. The statute which requires this has popularly come to be known as the “ One day of rest in seven ” law, and with certain exceptions and subject to certain qualifications it provides with appropriate penalties that every employer “ carrying on any factory or mercantile establishment ® * ® shall allow every person ® * * employed in such factory or mercantile establishment at…
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