Gleason v. Thomas

Fox, President:

Plaintiffs below and appellants here complain of a decree of the circuit court of Fayette County, denying them the relief prayed for in their bill and dismissing the same.

The controversy, one of long standing, involves the seniority rights of the plaintiffs, who are employed as firemen by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company on the Allegheny and New River districts of the Hinton Division of said railway, the crucial question being whether the said two districts constitute one seniority district, as contended by the defendants, or two separate and distinct senority districts,…