United States v. Atlanta Terminal Co.

SIBLEY, District Judge.

This is a suit against the Terminal Company for penalties under the Hours of Service Act (45 USCA § 61 et seq.) on account of overwork of its employees, engaged in handling train orders in a day and night office. It has been submitted on stipulated facts.

Though the Terminal Company handles trains only over a very limited trackage in and near its station, they are interstate trains, and the company’s employees co-operate with the train dispatchers of the railroad companies and deliver for them train orders to outbound trains. The Terminal Company is engaged in interstate…