Legal Opinion
State v. Somerville
Washington Supreme Court
Decided March 26, 1912No. 9898PublishedCited by 21 opinions
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Main, J., entered September 9, 1911, upon a trial and conviction of employing a woman in violation of the eight hour day law.
1Opinion of the CourtCrow, J.
The defendant Henrietta Somerville was arrested, tried, convicted, and fined under an information filed by the prosecuting attorney of King county, which omitting formal parts charged as follows:
“She, the said Henrietta Somerville, in the county of King, state of Washington, on the 9th day of June, 1911, being then and there the superintendent of It. S. Somerville and H. K. Somerville, copartners, then and there doing business under the name and style of the ‘Washington Paper Box Company,’ which said R. S. Somerville and H. K. Somerville, as copartners as aforesaid, then and there owned,…
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