Legal Opinion
Otten v. Baltimore & O. R. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 8, 1953No. 255, Docket 22672PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff appeals from an order of the District Court, denying his motion for a temporary injunction restraining the defendant railroads from discharging him from their employ; and also from an order allowing the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to intervene. (Since the second order is clearly unappealable, wc shall disregard it.) Two points arise: (1) whether the action should be tried to a court of three judges under the Judiciary Act; 1 and (2) whether, if not, it was right to deny the injunction. The facts, which were undisputed, were as follows.…
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