McKinley v. Wilmington Star Mining Co.

This suit hy appellant, and more than a hundred others by different parties, were brought against the appellee before justices of the peace, in Will county, for wages claimed to be due them respectively as employes in' its mines. Judgment was recovered by each of said plaintiffs, and appeals taken by the defendant. In some of the cases there was a contract in writing between the parties, and in others there was not. By these contracts, which were alike in their terms, it was among other things agreed that the miners would work for the company in its mines from June 1,1876, to May 1, 1877, and…