Harris v. Owen

(Betired) delivered the opinion of the Court.. The sixteen complainants, by their bill, seek a decree against the defendant, J. W. Owen, for the sum of $168,-864.60, upon allegations that they were in his employ while he was engaged, as subcontractor, in constructing certain named governmental projects, in which minimum wages were prescribed, and that they were paid only *494twenty-five per cent of such wages. It is further alleged that demand was duly made oh Owen for the payment of the balance of the wages but that he refused to make any further payments.,. . While it is alleged that…