State v. Legendre
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First City Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans; John B. Fisher, Judge. A demurrer to an indictment, charging James Legendre with a violation of the Stationary Firemen’s Act, was sustained, and the State appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
The defendant was prosecuted for violating Act No. 201 of 1914, known as “The Stationary Firemen’s Act.”
Section 1 of the statute provides that a full day’s labor shall be eight hours and no more, and makes it a misdemeanor to compel a stationary fireman (as defined in section 5 of the act) to work longer than eight consecutive hours in one day, in a city having a population of 50,000 or more.
Section 5 defines the term, “stationary firéman,” as employed in the statute, to be:
“Any person employed in the generation of steam in stationary boilers in which coal is used as fuel.”
Section 3 provides…
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