Boblitt v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Ry. Co.

This appeal on questions of law and fact brought to this court for trial de novo an action *340which is in form one for an injunction, but in fact is to settle a dispute that has existed since 1911 between two local lodges or divisions, as they are called, of the Order of Railway Conductors of America, a voluntary labor organization (herein referred to as the O. R. C., or the Order). A division of O. R. C. usually consists of the conductors working on an operating division of a railroad system, and their seniority district usually coincides with the operating division.

The plaintiffs are five…