Rumbaugh v. Winifrede Railroad

SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.

This is another in the succession of cases since Steele v. Louisville & Nashville R. R., 323 U.S. 192, 65 S.Ct. 226, 89 L.Ed. 173 (1944), involving interpretation of the Railway Labor Act, 45 U.S.C. A. § 151 et seq., and determination of the scope of federal judicial power in its administration.

Rumbaugh has joined his former employer, Winifrede Railroad Company, and the union designated as the bargaining representative for local railroad employees as co-defendants in an action to recover damages allegedly caused by the independent and combined efforts of the defendants…