JARAMILLO v. CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE

No. 6414.

329 P.2d 626 (1958)

64 N.M. 427

Farank JARAMILLO, Ignacio Aragon Vicente Tenorio, Miguel Mora and Crecencio Moya, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE, a municipal corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

September 5, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Avelino V. Gutierrez, Rolando J. Matteucci, Albuquerque, for appellants.

Frank Horan, Malcolm W. deVesty and Paul F. Henderson, Jr., Albuquerque, for appellee.


COMPTON, Justice.

This is a class action by appellants, plaintiffs below, employees of the Sanitation Department of the City of Albuquerque, for a declaratory judgment that eight hours constitutes a day's work in such employment. As a condition of their employment, they are required to work ten consecutive hours per day, four days a week.

Since we have no statute on the subject, we must turn to our Constitution, Article 20, Section 19. The section reads:<...

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