Hudson v. St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co.

The following statement of the case is taken from the opinion by the Court of Civil Appeals through Justice Hodges, reported in 286 S. W. 766:

“In July, 1922, there occurred what is commonly known as the railway shopmen’s strike. At that time the appellant owned, at Tyler, Tex., repair shops in which several hundred men had been employed. A large number of those emploj'ees joined the strikers and quit work. Upon the ground that it was apprehensive of violence to its remaining employees and interference with its railway operations by the strikers and their sympathizers, appellant, through its…