United States v. Atlantic Coast Line R.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of South Carolina, at Columbia; Henry A. M. Smith, Judge. Action by the United States of America against the Atlantic Coast Dine Railroad Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPP, Circuit Judge.
This suit is brought by the United States to recover penalties for alleged violations of the act of Congress approved March 4, 1907, commonly known as the hours of service law, and the employés directly concerned are telegraphers in the service of defendant in error at Bennettsville, S. C.
From the'stipulated facts on which the action was tried it appears that the telegraph office at the station named was regularly kept open for business from 6:30 a. m. to 10:15 p. m., or 15 hours and 45 minutes in each 24-hoqr period; that two operators were employed at this station, one…
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- Bechtel v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
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