State v. Livingston Concrete Building & Manufacturing Co.
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Park County; Prank Henry, Judge. The Livingston Concrete Building and Manufacturing Company was charged with violating the provisions of the eight-hour law. From a judgment sustaining defendant’s demurrer to the information, the state appeals.
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Appeal from District Court, Park County; Prank Henry, Judge. The Livingston Concrete Building and Manufacturing Company was charged with violating the provisions of the eight-hour law. From a judgment sustaining defendant’s demurrer to the information, the state appeals. The provision of the statute in question, relative to work carried on by contractors for municipalities, is in direct conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which prohibits any state from depriving a person of liberty or property without due process of law, as well as. in conflict…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holloway
The Livingston Concrete Building and Manufacturing Company, a domestic corporation, was charged, by an information filed in the district court of Park county, with violating the provisions of Chapter 50, page 105, Laws of 1905, known as the ‘£ Eight-hour Law, ’ ’ in this: That the defendant, having a contract with the city of Livingston for the construction of certain cement sidewalks, crosswalks, and curbs, did unlawfully and willfully cause, suffer, and permit its servants and employees engaged in such work to work for a longer period than eight hours in a day. To this information the…
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