Legal Opinion
Buchanan v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided February 4, 1966No. 16651PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIXON, Chief Justice.
Eighteen plaintiffs, appellants here, brought separate suits in district courts in Dallas, Texas, against St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company, hereinafter called Railway, for recovery in a lump sum of separation allowances and wages alleged to be due them as former employees under Section 9 of the “Agreement of May 1936, Washington, D. C.”, hereinafter called the Washington Agreement. In the alternative they claim their suits are common law actions for damages because of wrongful discharge from their employment.
Railway in each case filed a plea alleging exclusive…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Republic Steel Corp. v. MaddoxSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Slocum v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Moore v. Illinois Central RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. v. KoppalSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Roy Walker v. Southern Railway Company, Roy Walker v. Southern Railway CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1965
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3Cited by7 opinions
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- Poppert v. Brotherhood of Railroad TrainmenNebraska Supreme Court · 1971
- Miller v. Stout, Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)1986
- Miller v. Stout, Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)1986
- Socrates G. Lopez v. Guy Williams, Sherriff of Montgomery County, Mike Weinzettle, Martha Kitchen, Lockey Murray, and County of Montgomery, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)2006
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