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STATE v. WOOLLEY

97 A.2d 239 (1953)

STATE ex rel. DAVIS v. WOOLLEY et al.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

May 29, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stewart Lynch, Robert B. Walls, Jr., Florence E. Freeman and Alfred R. Freczkowski, of Wilmington, for appellant.

Clyde M. England, Jr., and William S. Satterthwaite, of Wilmington, for appellees Herbert Barnes et al., constituting the New Castle County Levy Court.

Robert P. Barnett, of Wilmington, for appellees John A. Woolley et al., constituting the Board of Trustees of New Castle County Workhouse.

SOUTHERLAND, Chief Justice, and WOLCOTT and TUNNELL, Justices, sitting.

TUNNELL, Justice.

For some time prior to May 23, 1949, and thereafter until May 15, 1951, the relator, Joseph W. Davis, was employed as a guard at the New Castle County Workhouse. His contract of employment with the Trustees of the Workhouse was oral, but it was stipulated to have been in substance as follows:

"(a) that the workweek would be six days in each week; that he would work eight hours in each of such workdays, or a total of forty-eight hours per...

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