Crocker v. Town of Manchester

The Town of Manchester erected a building suitable for the operation of a garment factory and leased the same to the Star Union Company. Prior thereto, the Town of Manchester, as a part of the plan to finance the construction of the building, procured some twelve or thirteen hundred persons, principally women, to agree to pay to the Town six per cent of their wages if employed at the factory. Plaintiff in error, Opal Crocker, was one of the persons who agreed to the above terms, and she entered into the following written contract with the Town:

“I, Opal Crocker, the undersigned, hereby make…