 | 1926 - 508 lapas
...See People ex rel. Rodgers v. Coler, 166 NY 1, 24-25, 59 NE 716, 52 L. RA 814, 82 Am. St. Rep. 605. Nor can the question be solved by resort to the established...promote it. See State v. Partlow, 91 NC 550, 553, 49 Am. Rep. 652; Commonwealth v. Bank of Pennsylvania, 3 Watts & S. (Pa.) 173, 177. In the second place,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1926 - 688 lapas
...269 US " current rate of wages " is not simple but progressive — fromsomuch (the minimum) tosomuch (the maximum), including all between; and to direct...See State v. Partlow, 91 NC 550, 553; Commonwealth v. Bank of Pennsylvania, 3 Watts & S. 173, 177. In the second place, additional obscurity is imparted... | |
 | 1926 - 356 lapas
...multitude of gradations. To construe the phrase 'current rate of wages' as meaning either the lowest or the highest rate or any intermediate rate or, if...defeat the purpose of the legislature as to promote it. * * * "In the second place, additional obscurity is imparted to the statute by the use of the qualifying... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1927 - 1138 lapas
...language wanting in precision, to the intent of the legislature. For the vice of the statute here li^s in the impossibility of ascertaining, by any reasonable...promote it. See State v. Partlow, 91 NC 550, 553, 49 1 The commissioner's own invpstig»uo_ shows that wages ranged from 91-00 to $4.05 per day; and... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1927 - 1140 lapas
...language wanting in precision, to the intent of the legislature. For the vice of the statute here H°s in the impossibility of ascertaining, by any reasonable...promote it. See State v. Partlow, 91 NC 550, 553, 40 1 The commissioner's own investigate., shows that wages ranged fro« W .00 to $4.05 per day; and... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1927 - 1510 lapas
...of a multitude of gradations. To construe the phrase "current rate of wages" as meaning either tho lowest rate or the highest rate or any intermediate...promote it. See State v. Partlow, 91 NC 550, 553, 49 1 The commissioner's own investigation shows that wages ranged from $3.00 to $4.0.1 per day: and... | |
 | United States. General Accounting Office - 1931 - 674 lapas
...the question of what is meant incapable of any definite answer. See People ea> rel. Rodgers v. Goler, 166 NY 1, 24-25. Nor can the question be solved by...See State v. Partlow, 91 NC 550, 553 ; Commonwealth v. Bank of Pennsylvania. 3 Watts & S. 173. 177. In the second place, additional obscurity is imparted... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor - 1932 - 50 lapas
...(See People ex rel. Rodgers v. Color, 166 NY 1, 24, 25, 52 LRA 814, 82 Am. St. Rep. 605, 59 NE 716.) " Nor can the question be solved by resort to the established...of the legislature as to promote it. (See State v. Bartlow, 91 NC 550, 553 49 Am. Rep. 652; Com. v. Bank of Pennsylvania, 3 Watts & S. 173, 177.) "In... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Labor - 1932 - 204 lapas
...without saying which, is to leave the question of what is meant incapable of any definite answer. * * * To construe the phrase 'current rate of wages' as...rates would be as likely to defeat the purpose of the act as to promote it." The court also held that the word "locality" also too indefinite, elastic, and... | |
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For the vice of the statute here lies in the impossibility of ascertaining, by any reasonable test, that the legislature meant one thing rather than another, and in the futility of an attempt to apply a requirement, which assumes the existence of a rate... 
