Holly Hill Fruit Products, Inc. v. Addison

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

Appellant is a cooperative corporation engaged in the packing and canning of citrus fruit at Davenport, Florida. This is a suit by its employees for wages, overtime, and statutory penalties alleged to be due them by reason of the failure of their employer to comply with the minimum-wage and maximum-hour requirements (Sections 6 arid 7) of the Fair Labor Standards Act.1 A final judgment was entered in favor of some of the employees, and the employer has appealed.

It is admitted that the wage-and-hour requirements of the Act were not observed, but appellant contends that…