Post v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case. The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimants were letter-carriers at the post-office at Salt Lake City, in the Territory of Utah, between May 24,1888, and December 31,1889, their respective terms of service, classes, and salaries being as hereinbelow set forth, viz: II.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case. The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimants were letter-carriers at the post-office at Salt Lake City, in the Territory of Utah, between May 24,1888, and December 31,1889, their respective terms of service, classes, and salaries being as hereinbelow set forth, viz: II. During tiieir aforesaid terms of service said claimants were actually employed in the performance of their duties more than eight hours a day, the excess oyer such eight hours being-shown in the following finding : III. The manner, time, and nature of…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
These cases affect the compensation of probably all the letter-cariers in the United States. The statute under which they arise is singularly brief and clear, and expresses in unmistakable terms the legislative intent. But the services of letter-carriers are so peculiar and ill-defined, that the application of the law to the facts is no easy task. The statute is in these words:
“ That hereafter eight hours shall constitute a day’s work for letter-carriers in cities or postal districts connected therewith, for which they shall receive the same pay as is now paid for a day’s work of a greater…
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