Walton v. Southern Package Corp.

This is a suit brought against the respondent by an employee, Fred Walton, in a Mississippi state court to recover overtime compensation and liquidated damages as authorized by § 16 (b) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Walton died before the case was tried and the suit was revived by his administratrix, the petitioner here. A judgment for the petitioner rendered by the trial court was reversed by the Mississippi Supreme Court 2 on the ground that Walton had not been employed in the production of goods for interstate commerce or in “any process or occupation necessary to the production…