Frank Satterfield v. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company

This appeal from dismissal of an action of a former railroad baggage-man for wrongful discharge, brought in the District Court for the Southern District of New York on the basis of diverse citizenship, again raises the issue of the preclusive effect of failure to exhaust remedies provided in a collective bargaining agreement between a union and an employer subject to the Railway Labor Act, 45 U.S.C. § 151 et seq. The present agreement, between The Pennsylvania Railroad Company and its clerical, office, station and storehouse employees, represented by the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship…