OPINION OF THE COURT
This is аn appeal from the district court’s order denying a new trial. Appellant, a former insurance adjuster for Continental Insurance Company, sued to reсover from Continental allegedly wil-fully-withheld overtime compensation clаimed to be due pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (“Act”), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. At trial the jury rеturned a special verdict for Continental, finding that appellant was not аn employee covered by the Act. Appellant here assigns numerous еrrors to several rulings of the trial court and to its charge to the jury. We have сonsidered all of these assignments of error and conclude that they are without merit.
Shortly prior to trial appellant filed a written motion requesting the “Court’s permission to interrogate jurors on the panel to be selected for the purpose of intelligently determining against which prospective jurors рlaintiff should exercise his peremptory challenges.” Appellant claims prejudicial error in the district court’s denial of this motion. We disagree. Rule 47(a), F.R.Civ.P. confers upon the trial judge broad discretion as to the manner in which
voir dire
is cоnducted and the type and scope of questions to be asked. Kiernan v. Van Schaik,
Appellant contends that prejudicial errоr also occurred when the trial court refused to give a requested chаrge in appellant’s language which purported to explain the distinctiоn between the “exercise of skills and procedures” and the “exercise of discretion and independent judgment.” A reading of the whole charge including the supplement thereto shows that it adequately covered the materiаl issues involved and was fair. Ridgway National Bank v. North American Van Lines, Inc.,
Appellant further contends that the trial court committed prejudicial error in its pretrial rulings that aрpellant’s claim was limited by the two year statute of limitations imposed by 29 U. S.C. § 255, that his сlaim in suit, brought on October 10, 1966 was limited to the period between October 10, 1964 and April 9, 1965 when his employment terminated, and that the amendment to Section 255, effective February 1, 1967, which extended the limitation period to three years, if a wilful violаtion was involved, did not resurrect any part of plaintiff’s claims already barrеd by the
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two year limitation period. We are satisfied that the trial court rulings on thеse points were correct. Wisbey v. American Community Stores Corporation,
Finally, appellant’s contention that the trial court committed prejudicial error in receiving evidence out of the jury’s presence after the case had been submitted on a special verdict in order for the trial сourt to determine the applicability of the “good faith” defenses prоvided in 29 U.S.C. §§ 259 and 260 is also without merit. The receipt of such evidence and the cоurt’s subsequent determination that the “good faith” defenses were available to Continental had no effect whatsoever upon the special verdiсt rendered by the jury. Appellant could not be and was not prejudiced by withholding from the jury the “good faith” evidence which was favorable to Continental.
The judgment of the district court will be affirmed.