
    UNITED STATES v. STAPLETON (seventeen other cases).
    (Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    January 3, 1899.)
    Nos. 702-719.
    Errors to the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama. These were suits brought against the United States to recover compensation for extra time over eight hours per day served by plaintiffs as letter carriers. There was a judgment for plaintiff in each case, and the United States brings error. The suits were 18 in number, and brought by the following named plaintiffs: George W. Stapleton, Matthew L. Fowlks, Thomas M. Edwards, John T. Dillon, Charles A. Merritt, Charles W. Burney, Walter E. Douglass, Emanuel J. Lowenstein, Charles A. Buff, William C. Cunningham, Charles W. Lowry, Hampton S. Jones, Rufus G. Smith. George S. Martin, James D. Bell, Benjamin J. Puckett, Richard II. English, and Alfred B. Jackson.
    Before PARDEE, Circuit Judge, and SWAYNE and PARLANCE, District Judges.
   PARDEE, Circuit Judge.

These cases are similar In all respects to U. S. v. McCrory (just decided) 91 Fed. 295. For the reasons therein given, the writs of error in the above-entitled eases are abated; no mandate to issue, but the clerk may certify judgment.  