Gibney v. United States

During the Government’s fiscal year 1948, the period beginning July 1,1947, and ending June 30,1948, plaintiff was an inspector in the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the United States. The Act of March 2, 1931, 46 Stat. *481467, 8 U. S. C. 109, et seq., provided that such employees should be paid, for work beyond an eight-hour day on ordinary days, one-half day’s additional pay for each two hours or major fraction thereof, and, for work on a Sunday or holiday, two additional days’ pay. See Myers v. United States, 320 U. S. 561, for the interpretation of a similar statute, applying…