Wynne v. Seaboard Air Line Ry.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Sease, J., Richland, Action by A. W. Wynne against Seaboard Air Line Ry., in court of FI. F. Beuchel, magistrate. From Circuit judgment affirming judgment of magistrate, defendant appeals. cite: Meaning of liberty to contract: 165 U. S. 578; 41 S. C. 237; 45 S. E. 327; 2 L. R. A. (N. S.) 591; 50 Am. R. 639. Police power does not apply here: 33 S. C. 103; 53 S. C. 259, 288; 78 S. C. 451; 152 U. S. 137; 50 Am.
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Before Sease, J., Richland, Action by A. W. Wynne against Seaboard Air Line Ry., in court of FI. F. Beuchel, magistrate. From Circuit judgment affirming judgment of magistrate, defendant appeals. cite: Meaning of liberty to contract: 165 U. S. 578; 41 S. C. 237; 45 S. E. 327; 2 L. R. A. (N. S.) 591; 50 Am. R. 639. Police power does not apply here: 33 S. C. 103; 53 S. C. 259, 288; 78 S. C. 451; 152 U. S. 137; 50 Am. R. 646; 80 S. C. 188; 4 Wall. 277; 18 R. R. A. 546. Court must decide if an act is proper exercise of police power: 1 Cranch. 137; 123 U. S. 623; 198 U. S. 45; 23 R. R. A. 264. Act…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Hydrick.
Plaintiff recovered judgment against defendant in the court of the magistrate for $1.93, wages due him by defendant, at the time he was discharged from the service of defendant, and $95, thé accumulated daily penalty of $5 per day for every day’s delay in payment of his said wages, after demand therefor, as allowed by section 3812 of the Civil Code of 1912, which reads as follows: “When any corporation carrying on any business in this State in which laborers are employed, whose wages, under the business rule or custom of such…
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