Delano v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Southern District of Illinois; J. Otis Humphrey, Judge. ' Action by the United States against Frederick A. Delano, William K. Bixby, and Edward B. Pryor, receivers of the Wabash Railroad Company, to recover penalties. Judgment for the United States, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
BAKER, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs in error, defendants below, were adjudged to have violated the Hours of Service Act. 34 Stat. L. 1415.
Plaintiff declared that defendants were engaged in operating a railroad in interstate commerce, and that they required a telegrapher, who was employed by them, in a day and night station to receive and deliver orders affecting train movements, to be on duty 11 hours and 30 minutes during each 24-hour period.
In a special plea defendants admitted all the averments of the declaration except the one respecting the service of the operator. Concerning that, they…
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