Warren-Bradshaw Drilling Co. v. Hall

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Another of the growing number of cases brought in this circuit, by employees under Section 16(b), 1 of the Fair Labor Stand ards Act of 1938, this suit was to recover for overtime pay. The claim in general was that plaintiffs were engaged in the production of goods for commerce within the meaning of Section 3(j), 2 of the Act, and that they had worked overtime hours for which they had not been paid. The claim in particular was that defendant was a drilling contractor engaged in the business of drilling oil wells not for itself, but for others with rotary drilling…