Beaty v. Massey-Hite Grocery Co.

StukES, J.:

Respondent brought this action against appellant upon a complaint in which he alleged that he was employed by appellant continuously from July 22, 1942, until June 12, 1946, and from the former date to September 7, 1945, received a weekly wage ranging from $25.00 to approximately $46.00 and worked from about forty-five hours to fifty-six hours per week; that under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U. S. C. A. § 201 et seq., a work week is forty hours and appellant was required by law to pay time and a half for the hours employed in excess of forty hours; but such was not…