Borgnis v. Falk Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: W. J. TueNee, Circuit Judge. It appears by tbe complaint tbat tbe defendant is a manufacturing corporation in Milwaukee, employing at its shops many workmen, among whom are tbe plaintiffs. Tbe plaintiff Borgnis is tbe superintendent of one of tbe departments in tbe defendant’s establishment at a salary of $2,000 per year, under a contract extending some time in tbe future.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: W. J. TueNee, Circuit Judge. It appears by tbe complaint tbat tbe defendant is a manufacturing corporation in Milwaukee, employing at its shops many workmen, among whom are tbe plaintiffs. Tbe plaintiff Borgnis is tbe superintendent of one of tbe departments in tbe defendant’s establishment at a salary of $2,000 per year, under a contract extending some time in tbe future. Tbe plaintiff Schumacher is an infant seventeen years of age, employed under an apprenticeship contract which has yet nearly three years to run. Tbe…
1Opinion of the Court
Winslow, O. J.
We are not certainly advised as to the exact ground on which the decision below was reached, but we *337assume that it was on the theory that the law in question was a valid law; that it was retrospective in its effect; and that if the defendant elected to become subject to the act the plaintiffs would be compelled to breach their existing contracts or submit to the terms of the act and thus lose valuable rights; and hence that equity might and should restrain their employer from electing to come under the law until their existing contracts had expired.
It seems to be true that this…
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