Johnson v. Great Nat. Life Ins. Co.

YOUNG, Justice.

The primary question involved on this appeal is whether appellant, as janitor of an office building, occupied by the usual class of tenants, whose employer was not engaged in interstate commerce, or production of goods for interstate commerce, and, at most, only about 20 per cent of the floor space was occupied by tenants engaged in business outside the state of Texas, is subject to the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, c. 676, 52 Stat. 1060, 29 U.S.C.A. § 201 et seq. Jurisdiction of this question is conferred upon the state courts by Sec. 16(b) of the Act,…