Shaffer v. Union Mining Co.

This case comes before us on an agreed statement of facts and a waiver of all errors in pleading. The sole object of the suit, it is said, is to obtain a construction of ch. 278 of the Acts of 1880, and test its constitutionality.

The first section of the Act provides, “that every corporation engaged in mining or manufacturing, or operat*76ing a railroad in Allegany County and employing ten hands or more, shall pay its employes the full amount of their wages in legal tender money of the United States ; and that any contract by or on behalf of any such corporation for the payment of the whole or…