Thompson v. Loring Oil Co. (50 F. Supp. 213, 1943)

DAWKINS, District Judge.

This suit was filed in the state court for the Parish of Sabine and removed here on the ground of diverse citizenship. It demands the sum of $4,196.30 as overtime and penalties for labor alleged to have been performed as an oil pumper. The petition alleges that the plaintiff was entitled to pay for 12 hours a day 7 days a week for the period from March 1, 1941, until December 27 of that year; that he was paid for 35 hours a week, while he worked 84; that his base pay was 71‡ per hour and for the first 40 hours he was entitled to receive $28.40, but for the additional 44 hours he should have received pay for 1% times the regular rate or $1.065 per hour in addition to $48.86 per week; that after deducting what he actually received at 7l