Legal Opinion
Verna Walters v. Chicago and North Western Railway Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 29, 1954No. 11212PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWAIM, Circuit Judge.
Pursuant to Rule 13 of the Rules of this Court the plaintiff-appellant, Verna Walters, filed a motion asking that oral argument limited to the question of the jurisdiction of the District Court be held in advance of a hearing on the merits. Her motion was granted.
This appeal presents the question of whether or not the District Court had jurisdiction to pass on a question of the interpretation of a collective bargaining agreement between a railroad and one of the brotherhoods when the validity of the contract was not in question. We think that under the facts presented…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Slocum v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Moore v. Illinois Central RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. HowardSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Order of Railway Conductors of America v. PitneySupreme Court of the United States · 1946
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3Cited by16 opinions
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- Helen Smith Nelson, of Arthur E. Nelson, Deceased v. Swing-A-Way Manufacturing Company, a Corporation, and Idus L. RhodesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1959
- Eugene J. Morrissette, Felix Lee and Nathaniel Brown v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1962
- Salvatore J. Pacilio v. The Pennsylvania Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1967
- Shiels v. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad CompanyDistrict Court, S.D. Indiana · 1957
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