Barrow v. Adams & Co. Real Estate, Inc.

Plaintiff sues to recover overtime wages and liquidated damages under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. (U. S. Code, tit. 29, § 201 et seq.)

The defendant is a real estate broker and agent. It manages real estate and operates about one hundred commercial buildings in the Borough of Manhattan. Defendant maintains a complete and permanent staff, which supervises and directs the management and operation of the buildings under its control, apart from the employees in the respective buildings which the defendant maintains for the owners under separate contractual arrangements.

These contracts…