WILSON v. NEW

No. 797.

243 U.S. 332 (1917)

WILSON, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI, v. NEW ET AL., RECEIVERS OF THE MISSOURI, OKLAHOMA & GULF RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 19, 1917.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Solicitor General and Mr. Frank Hagerman, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom The Attorney General and Mr. Assistant Attorney General Underwood were on the briefs, for appellant.

Mr. Walker D. Hines and Mr. John G. Johnson, with whom Mr. Arthur Miller was on the briefs, for appellees.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

Was there power in Congress under the circumstances existing to deal with the hours of work and wages of railroad employees engaged in interstate commerce, is the principal question here to be considered. Its solution as well as that of other questions which also arise will be clarified by a brief statement of the conditions out of which the controversy arose.

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