Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. United States

EVAN A. EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff was convicted of violating section 2 of the Hours of Service Act (34 Stat. 1415 [Comp. St. § 8678]). The material portions of the act, so far as this case is concerned, read as follows:

“Provided, that no operator, train dispatcher, or other employee who by the use of the telegraph or telephone-dispatches, reports, transmits, receives, or delivers orders pertaining to or affecting train movements shall be required or permitted to be or remain on duty for a longer period than nine hours in any twenty-four hour period in all towers, offices, places, and…