Commonwealth v. Casey

Citations

• 43 Pa. Super. 494
• 1910 Pa. Super. LEXIS 80

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional law — Class legislation — Liberty to contract — Municipal corporations — Municipal contracts.</p> <p>1. The Act of July 26,1897, P. L. 418, entitled, “An Act to regulate the hours of labor of mechanics, workingmen and laborers in the employ of the state, or municipal corporations therein, or otherwise engaged on public works,” is not unconstitutional as violating secs. 1 and 9 of art. I, and secs. 3 and 7 of art. Ill, of the state constitution as class legislation and an unjust interference with a mechanic’s, workman’s or laborer’s liberty to contract.</p> <p>2. A contractor for the construction of a filtration plant of a city may be convicted of violating the provisions of the Act of July 26,1897, P. L. 418, if he compels his workmen to labor for more than eight hours a day while engaged in work on the filtration plant.</p> <p>Morrison and Head, JJ., dissent.</p>