Hitchcock v. Union & New Haven Trust Co.

This action comes before us by an appeal from a judgment rendered for the defendants upon the plaintiff’s failure to plead over after a demurrer to the complaint was sustained. The writ is dated January 8, 1947. The complaint alleged that the plaintiff was employed by the defendants from October 1, 1939, to about June 1, 1942, under an oral agreement that he be paid $25 a week, and that he in fact worked eighty-four hours each week; and he claims to recover additional compensation for the time he worked over forty hours a week, under the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. 52…