S.H. Robinson Co., Inc. v. Larue

The plaintiff below, Joe Larue, sues his former employer, S. H. Robinson & Company, Incorporated, for a violation of the federal statute known as “Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938,” 29 U. S. C. A., see. 201 et seq., to recover the minimum standard wage provided by the act for the number of hours worked weekly and in addition for overtime, as provided in the act, and a penalty of double the amount found due him after crediting the amount paid him. The defense is that the employer was not engaged in interstate commerce, and the employee was not employed in interstate business, but he was…