WALLING v. W. D. HADEN CO.

No. 11302.

153 F.2d 196 (1946)

WALLING v. W. D. HADEN CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 18, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bessie Margolin, Assistant Solicitor, U. S. Department of Labor, and Joseph M. Stone, Attorney, U. S. Department of Labor, both of Washington, D. C., and Earl Street, Regional Attorney, U. S. Department of Labor, of Dallas, Tex., for appellant.

Searcy Bracewell, J. S. Bracewell, and W. P. Hamblen, all of Houston, Tex., for appellee.

R. Emmett Kerrigan and Marian Mayer, both of New Orleans, La., amici curiæ.

Before SIBLEY, WALLER, and LEE, Circuit Judges.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The case concerns the application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to workers on dredge boats.

The appellee W. D. Haden Co., is engaged in dredging shell deposits, mainly oyster shells, from the ocean floor off Galveston Bay in the Gulf of Mexico, and transporting the material by barges drawn by tugs to several ports on the Texas coast where the shells are sold and delivered to manufacturers of lime, cement, and magnesium, and for coarse...

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