MITCHELL v. H. B. ZACHRY CO.

No. 83.

362 U.S. 310 (1960)

MITCHELL, SECRETARY OF LABOR, v. H. B. ZACHRY CO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 4, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bessie Margolin argued the cause for petitioner. With her on the brief were Solicitor General Rankin, Harold C. Nystrom, Sylvia S. Ellison and Jacob I. Karro.

R. Dean Moorhead and Chester H. Johnson argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

Once again we are presented with a nice question concerning the scope of the Fair Labor Standards Act, as amended. 63 Stat. 912, 29 U. S. C. § 207. The respondent, a construction contractor, was engaged by the Lower Nueces River Water Supply District (hereafter to be called the District) to construct a dam and impounding facilities on the lower Nueces River in Texas at a cost of about $6,000,000, in...

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