Wooldridge v. Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad

Officials of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, as bargaining agent, requested the trustees of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company to enter into a contract with that union, giving certain locomotive firemen on a portion of the narrow-gauge lines of the company limited seniority rights on a portion of the standard-gauge lines. Some of the locomotive firemen, mostly members of the same brotherhood union, on the affected portion of the standard-gauge lines threatened court action against the employing railroad company, hereinafter designated as the “carrier,” if…