Commonwealth v. Dranga

Jones, J.,

This case came before us on appeal from summary conviction before a justice of the peace in the Borough of Braddock, wherein defendant was charged with violation of the Act of April 24, 1913, P. L. 114, sec. 1, 43 PS §251, known as the Wage Act; and was fined the sum of $100 and costs.

Prosecutor, one Harry Thomas, charged that defendant wilfully refused to pay him the wages earned in the mining of coal near the community of Universal, this *261county. Defendant denied that there is any money due, but said that prosecutor was not to be paid in cash, but in kind, to wit, coal mined by…