MOORE v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL R. CO.

No. 550.

312 U.S. 630 (1941)

MOORE v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD CO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 31, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. George Butler and Garner W. Green submitted for petitioner.

Mr. James L. Byrd, with whom Messrs. Clinton H. McKay, E.C. Craig and V.W. Foster were on the brief, for respondent.

Solicitor General Biddle and Mr. Robert L. Stern filed a brief on behalf of the United States, as amicus curiae, submitting views of the construction of the Railway Labor Act, as amended.


MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

We granted certiorari in this case, 311 U.S. 643, to review a judgment in which the Circuit Court of Appeals applied a Mississippi statute of limitations contrary to the Mississippi Supreme Court's application of the same statute to the same plea in the same case. Compare Moore v. Illinois Central Railroad Co., 180 Miss. 276; 176 So. 593, with Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. Moore,...

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