Bridgeman v. Ford, Bacon & Davis, Inc.

RIDDICK, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, thirty-nine in number, brought this action under section 16(b) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 29 U.S.C.A. § 216(b), against the appellee to recover overtime compensation, liquidated damages, and attorneys’ fees. The appellants were employed as firemen at the Arkansas Ordnance Plant near Little Rock, Arkansas. Their employer, the appellee, Ford, Bacon & Davis, Inc., operated the ordnance plant, engaged in loading ammunition for war, under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract with the War Department.

The period for which appellants claim that appellee…