San Antonio & A. P. Ry. Co. v. Collins

Appellee, a switchman in its railway yards at Houston, sued appellant for $5,786.64 in damages for breach of a contract of employment between them of date October 15, 1920, alleging that, after remaining in such service from May 4 of 1909, to May 14 of 1921, he was on the latter date unjustly discharged and deprived of his seniority rights, remaining out of its service and without having in the meantime earned any money at other employment, until he was reinstated by appellant on November 3 of 1923, in response to an order to that effect from the United States Labor Board, to whom a mutually…