Coyle v. Erie Railroad Company

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Vanderbilt, C. J.

The defendant railroad has appealed from a decree of the former Court of Chancery ordering the rein statement of the complainants in its employment and permanently restraining it from retrying them upon certain charges of insubordination.

The complainants had been employed as baggage porters by the defendant for a few years, except for the interim in which each was in military service, until November 20, 1947, when they were dismissed. Their dismissal arose out of these facts: At about 10 P.M. on October 11, 1947, the complainants,…