Reeves v. Howard County Refining Co.

DAVIDSON, District Judge.

The Court understands the law to be that this Act (29 U.S.C.A. § 201 et seq.) is what the name implies, a minimum wage and hour Act, and that parties may contract with reference to hours and compensation at will, provided the compensation to be paid is not less than the scale fixed by the law. It thus becomes important for the determination of the rights of the several employees involved to arrive at the nature of the contract or agreement under which they were' working, and have been working since the passage of the Act.

C. C. Reeves testified that he had for some…