James D. Hodgson, Secretary of Labor v. Elm Hill Meats of Kentucky, Inc.

Elm Hill Meats of Kentucky, Inc. appeals from a judgment of the District Court enjoining and restraining it from violating the provisions of section 29 U. S.C. §§ 201 et seq., 15(a) (1) and 15(a) (2) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 as amended, and ordering it to cease withholding payment of minimum wages and overtime compensation found by the court to be due under the Act to twenty-four of its employees in the amounts listed therein. Elm Hill also appeals from the District Judge’s denial of its subsequent motion for a new trial.

Defendant’s principal claim of error goes to the adequacy…