State v. Cullom
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Livingston; Robert S. Ellis, Judge. Edward T. Cullom, president of the Springfield Lumber Company, was indicted for violating the statute requiring manufactories employing 10 or more persons to pay them in full every 2 weeks. Motion to quash indictment sustained, and the State appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The accused was indicted for violation of Act No. 25, p. 80, of 1914, requiring manufactories employing 10 or more persons to pay them in full every 2 weeks, and making it a misdemeanor to fail to do so, punishable by a fine of not more than $250, or imprisonment for not less than 10 nor more than 60 days, or both.
tie filed a motion to quash the indictment, on the ground that the act was violative of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and of articles 1, 2,15, and 48 of the Constitution of Louisiana, in that:
“It is class legislation, in that it does not apply to…
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