Harris v. Owen

The sixteen complainants, by their bill, seek a decree against the defendant, J.W. Owen, for the sum of $168,864.60, upon allegations that they were in his employ while he was engaged, as subcontractor, in constructing certain named governmental projects, in which minimum wages were prescribed, and that they were paid only twenty-five per cent of such wages. It is further alleged that demand was duly made on Owen for the payment of the balance of the wages but that he refused to make any further payments.

While it is alleged that complainants were in the employ of Owen, some for more than two,…