St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. v. Hudson

In July, 1922, there occurred what is commonly known as the railway shopmen’s strike. The appellant owned at that time repair shops at Tyler, Tex., in which several hundred men were employed. A large number, if not all, of those employees, joined the strike and quit work. Being apprehensive of injury to its property and interference with its railway operation by the strikers or their sympathizers, appellant, through its attorneys, applied to the Governor of Texas for a troop of rangers to act as guards for protection against such violence and interference. The Governor consented to send…