State v. Pacific American Fisheries

The defendant was charged by information with employing a female person for more than eight hours in one day. The information, so far as material to the present inquiry, is as follows:

“Then and there, being on or about October 20, 1911, the said defendant, Pacific American Fisheries', a corporation, did then and there wilfully and unlawfully employ a female, to wit: Mrs. E. B. Scrimscher, for more than eight hours out of the twenty-four hours of said 20th day of October, 1911, to wit: for a period of ten consecutive hours, save and except one hour intermission between 12 and 1 o’clock of said…