Harrison v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: This action, being a test case, was presented to the court on the following agreed statement of facts and the amendment and papers thereto appended.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: This action, being a test case, was presented to the court on the following agreed statement of facts and the amendment and papers thereto appended. It is agreed in this case between counsel for the claimant, and the Assistant Attorney-General, representing the United States Government, as follows: I. The claimant, Walton Harrison, a citizen of the United States, was a compositor in the Government Printing Office from July 10, 1888, to September 25, 1889, and was employed sometimes on timework and sometimes on piecework. When employed on timework he was…
1Opinion of the CourtHott, J.
The Government Printing Office contains nine salaried officers and over twenty-three hundred employés. In their legal relations with the Government the employés are contractors. Their wages are a matter of agreement with the Public Printer; *265but a limit is set upon his authority by a statute, which will be hereinafter considered, he being allowed to contract for less, but not for more, than certain rates of wages therein specified. At this time the wages paid are the highest which the Public Printer is by law allowed to pay, being fifty cents a thousand ems for piecework and forty cents an…
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