United States v. Mississippi Export Railroad Company

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

The complaint seeks to recover the penalty prescribed by section 63 of Title 45 U.S.C.A. 1 for violation of section 62, which limits the hours of service of employees of common carriers by railroad. 2 It charges that the Railroad Company, “having required and permitted its certain fireman and employee, to wit: Frank Upton--------, to be and remain on duty as such upon its line of railroad at and between the stations of Moss Point --------an(j Evanston, Mississippi --------, for sixteen hours in the aggregate during the twenty-four-hour period beginning at 8:00 o’clock p.…