Hall v. Warren-Bradshaw Drilling Co.

WILSON, District Judge.

The eight plaintiffs here sue the defendant for overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act, Title 29, U.S.C.A. § 201 et seq. They constituted a rotary drilling crew in drilling oil wells in the Panhandle Oil Field of Texas, or, as defendant put it, holes in the ground, for the defendant. All of them drew rather good wages ranging from around $6.50 to $7 and up to as high as $11 per day for their work. As a practical matter, in the drilling of these oil wells, the defendant used rotary rigs for drilling the wells down to, or near to, the pay sand. At that juncture, the…