District Court, E.D. Tennessee January 2, 1948, Civil Action No. 714 (Patton v. Roane-Anderson Co.)

TAYLOR, Chief Judge.

There are here 164 plaintiffs, 162 of them firemen of the Oak Ridge fire department, the others, Zimmerlee and Carroll, being a detective attached to the Oak Ridge guards or police force and a clerk in the auditing department of the defendant Roane-Anderson Company, all of whom are suing for premium pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, Title 29 U.S. C.A.