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ABBOTT v. UNITED STATES

No. 50208.

151 F.Supp. 929 (1957)

Elmer G. ABBOTT et al., v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

May 8, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis P. Noonan and William S. Tyson, Washington, D. C., for the plaintiffs. Gaines V. Palmes, Washington, D. C., was on the briefs.

Kendall M. Barnes, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. George Cochran Doub, for the defendant.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and LARAMORE, Judges.

MADDEN, Judge.

This is a suit by ship pilots employed by the Panama Canal, an agency of the United States. They sue for overtime compensation at time and one-half their basic rates of pay for work in excess of 40 hours per week. The period covered by the suit is July 1, 1945 to July 1, 1951. The plaintiffs base their claim on section 203 of the Federal Employees' Pay Act of 1945, 59 Stat. 297, 5 U.S.C.A. § 913. At the present stage of the case, only the question...

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