Underwood v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Dallas County; Kenneth Foree, Judge. Suit by J. A. Underwood and others against the Texas & Pacific Railway Company and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtRainey, C. J.
This is a suit for a writ of injunction, brought by appellants against appellees to obtain relief from the continued enforcement and carrying out of a purported contract or agreement alleged to be in existence between the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the defendant railroads, by the terms of which it is substantially provided that in the employment of switchmen in their yards no persons who were not members of the Brotherhood would be given employment by said railroads, and for a decree declaring said purported contract or agreement void. The grounds for such relief, as stated in the…
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