SYSTEM FEDERATION NO. 91 v. REED

Nos. 10930, 10931.

180 F.2d 991 (1950)

SYSTEM FEDERATION NO. 91, RY. EMPLOYES' DEPT., AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR v. REED et al. LOUISVILLE & N. R. CO. v. REED et al.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

March 13, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard R. Lyman, Toledo, Ohio, Robert E. Hogan, Louisville, Ky., Clarence M. Mulholland, on brief, for System Federation No. 91, Ry. Employes' Dept., etc., and others.

C. S. Landrum, Lexington, Ky., H. T. Lively, Louisville, Ky., on brief, for Louisville & N. R. Co.

Marshall Eldred, Louisville, Ky., Eli H. Brown, III, on brief, Brown, Greenebaum & Eldred, Louisville, Ky., of counsel, for C. Pierce Reed and Brown & Eldred.

Before SIMONS, ALLEN and McALLISTER, Circuit Judges.


McALLISTER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, a railroad company and a union, appeal from a judgment holding them in contempt of court for violation of an injunction which prohibited them from discriminating against appellees through denying them and the classes represented by them, promotion to preferred jobs and protection of their seniority. The above appeals are from the same judgment, and will be considered as one case.

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