W. Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. The Floridice Company, Inc.

TUTTLE, Chief Judge:

The Secretary of Labor brought suit under the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C.A. Sec. 201 et seq.) to restrain The Floridice Company, its principal officers, and others, 1 from violating certain of the Act’s provisions, and to compel Floridice to pay, for the benefit of vari ous of its employees, certain amounts alleged to be due as unpaid minimum wages and overtime compensation.

The case was tried to the court without a jury, and the sole issue considered by the district judge was whether Floridice is an establishment “seventy-five pereentum of whose annual volume of…