Overstreet v. North Shore Corp.

This is another case in which we must define the scope of the Fair Labor Standards Act. 1 52 Stat. 1060, 29 U. S. C. §§ 201 et seg. The precise question is whether petitioners, who are engaged in maintaining or operating a toll road and a drawbridge over a navigable waterway which together constitute a medium for the interstate movement of goods and persons, are “engaged in commerce” within the meaning of §§ 6 and 7 of the Act. 2

Petitioners, together with others not parties to this petition, brought this action against respondent and a subsidiary under § 16 (b) of the Act for the recovery of…