Fort Smith & Western Railroad v. Mills

Citations

• 253 U.S. 206
• 40 S. Ct. 526
• 64 L. Ed. 862
• 1920 U.S. LEXIS 1411

Syllabus

<p>The Act of September 3, 5, 1916, known as the Adamson Law, although by its general terms purporting to apply to all railroads and railroad employees subject to the Act to Regulate Commerce, was not intended to govern the exceptional case of an insolvent railroad operating at a loss under an agreement with its men, which they desired to keep, allowing them less wages than the act prescribed. Wilson v. New, 243 IT. S. 332, considered.</p> <p>Reversed.</p>