Davies v. City of Seattle

Citations

• 67 Wash. 532
• 121 P. 987
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1206

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Eight-Hour Day — Labor by Teamsters. Rem. & Bal. Code, § 6575, providing that all work by contract or day labor done for the state or any of its political subdivisions, shall be performed in work days of not more than eight hours a day, is violated by requiring city teamsters to harness and hitch their teams, collect their tools, and be at the place of work before the legal day begins, so as to put in eight hours “on the job,” and thereafter return to the barn and unhitch and unharness their teams, putting in about an hour in excess of the lawful eight-hour day.</p> <p>Injunction — Adequate Remedy at Law — Violation op Eight-Hour Day Law. There is no adequate remedy at law and injunction lies to prevent the city from violating the eight-hour day law, where it employed many teamsters and required them to work in excess of eight hours a day or “quit the job,” the employment being mutually satisfactory and agreeable; and the city is not prejudiced by the form of the decree, even if there is a remedy by mandamus.</p>