Greene v. . Mills Co.

This action was brought by Jesse Greene in behalf of himself and twenty-two other employees of the Anchor Mills Company, a corporation doing business in Charlotte, North Carolina, to recover sums alleged to be variously due them for unpaid overtime wages and liquidated damages, under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 — (29 U.S.C.A., 201, Act of June, 1938, ch. 1060, et seq.).

The defendant company owned and partly occupied an office building in the city of Charlotte, and rented space therein to the Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, and other occupants. (The character of the business…