Commonwealth v. Dunn
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Complaint to the First District Court of Northern Worcester for a violation of the statutes relating to the weekly payment of wages.
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Complaint to the First District Court of Northern Worcester for a violation of the statutes relating to the weekly payment of wages. In the Superior Court, before the jury were impanelled, the defendant moved to quash the complaint, assigning, among other things, as grounds therefor, that it failed to set forth that any wages were due at the times when it was alleged that the defendant neglected to pay them, and that the statutes were in violation of the Constitution of the Commonwealth and of that of the United States. The motion was overruled by Fessenden, J., and the defendant excepted.…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
We assume that St. 1894, c. 508, § 51, as amended by St. 1895, c. 438, and St. 1896, c. 241, is not in violation of the Constitution of this Commonwealth or of the United States, for the reasons stated in the opinion given by the Justices to the House of Representatives on May 6,1895,163 Mass. 589.
We are of opinion that the effect of St. 1895, c. 438, is to make persons and partnerships engaged in any manufacturing business in the Commonwealth, and having more than twenty-five employees, subject to the general provisions of St. 1894, c. 508, § 51, concerning manufacturing corporations, but…
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