United States ex rel. Wylie v. W. S. Barstow & Co.

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This suit under the Heard Act, as amended, 40 USCA § 270, was brought by J. H. Wylie, plaintiff in the District Court, on behalf of himself and all other laborers who furnished labor to W. S. Barstow & Co., Inc., defendant, a contractor who built the Veterans’ Administration Hospital at Columbia, S. C., under a contract with the United States. The purpose of the suit was to recover from the contractor, for the period prior to April 1, 1932, the difference between the wages paid and the higher prevailing rate of wages for work of a similar nature in the same city as…