Legal Opinion

Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided June 1, 1950No. 6491PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HALL, Chief Justice.

The appellees, The Texas & Pacific Railway company and Guy A. Thompson, Trustee of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, instituted this suit against the appellants, officers of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the members of said Trainmen’s Union employed by appellees in the Texarkana Yard, in the district court of Bowie County for a declaratory judgment with respect to a certain working agreement between appellees and appellants employed in said railroad yard. The district court took jurisdiction of the case and construed certain portions of the contract…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Slocum v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
  2. Moore v. Illinois Central RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
  3. Order of Railway Conductors v. Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1950

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Wilburn v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas R. Co. of TexasCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1954
  2. Choate v. Grand International Brotherhood of Locomotive EngineersTexas Supreme Court · 1958
  3. Davis v. Southern Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1951
  4. Isgett v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1953
  5. Choate v. Grand International Brotherhood of Locomotive EngineersCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1957

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