Wirtz v. Louisiana Trailer Sales, Inc.

RUBIN, District Judge:

The sole issue presented in this case is the interpretation to be given the provision in the Fair Labor Standards Act exempting from coverage:

“any salesman, partsman, or mechanic primarily engaged in selling or servicing automobiles, trailers, trucks, farm implements, or aircraft if employed by a nonmanufacturing establishment primarily engaged in the business of selling such vehicles to ultimate purchasers.”1

Plaintiff contends that this provision does not exempt employees known as “servicemen” and “servicemen-mechanies” whose primary duties consist of preparing the type…