Bryant v. Skillman Hardware Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gabbison, J.

This action was brought to recover a penalty of $50 for the violation of section 1 of an act entitled “An act regulating the age, employment, safety, health and work hours of persons, employes and operatives in factories, workshops, mills and all places where the manufacture of goods of any kind is carried on, and to establish a department for the enforcement thereof,” approved March 24th, 1904, which section prohibits the employment, in any of the enumerated places, of any child under the age of fourteen years. At the trial, which resulted…