Goldberg v. P. & L. Equipment Co.

JOSEPH C. HUTCHESON, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment denying the Secretary’s claim that Taylor, the employee in question, was engaged in commerce and in the production of goods for commerce within the meaning of the Fair Labor Standards Act and was, therefore, within the Act’s coverage.

Unlike the cases dealt with by the writer in Addison v. Commercial National Bank in Shreveport, 5 Cir., 165 F.2d 937, where the gloss upon the statutory law made by the decisions was so intricate and difficult to follow that the cases were often more misleading than helpful, this case is a…