REED v. MURPHY

No. 15521.

232 F.2d 668 (1956)

M. T. REED, T. L. Reed, Jr., Mrs. M. T. Reed, Mrs. T. L. Reed, Jr., and Mrs. S. S. Hairston, co-partners doing business as M. T. Reed Construction Company, Appellants, v. Eugene M. MURPHY, Jr., et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

March 16, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sherwood W. Wise, Jackson, Miss., Charles S. Corben, New York City, for appellants.

Bessie Margolin, Asst. Solicitor, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., J. W. Price, Oxford, Miss., English Lindsey, Bidwell Adam, R. W. Thompson, Jr., Gulfport, Miss., Stuart Rothman, Solicitor, Dept. of Justice, William W. Watson, Eugene R. Jackson, Attys., U. S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D. C., Beverley R. Worrell, Regional Atty., Birmingham, Ala., for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and JONES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


BROWN, Circuit Judge.

A judgment awarding overtime wages, penalties and attorneys' fees under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C.A. §§ 201, 216(b), against appellants, Contractor for the United States Navy under two cost-plus-fixed-fee, wartime, contracts1 is again before us for review.2

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