Holt v. Barnesville Farmers Elevator Co.

RIDDICK, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit brought by employees of the Barnesville Farmers Elevator Company, a corporation, for overtime wage payments claimed under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 29 U.S.C.A. § 201 et seq. The district court held that, because of the exemption contained in §. 13(a) (10) of the Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 213 (a) (10), the employees were not within the protection of the Act.

The appellee elevator company is principally engaged in storing, buying, and selling grain in Barnesville, Minnesota, a town with approximately 1,300 population. It also sells coal, wood, twine,…