HOWARD v. ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RY. CO.

Nos. 13899, 13900.

191 F.2d 442 (1951)

HOWARD v. ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RY. CO. et al. ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RY. CO. v. HOWARD et al.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

September 11, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor Packman, St. Louis, Mo. and Joseph C. Waddy, Washington, D. C. (Henry D. Espy, St. Louis, Mo. and Charles H. Houston, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for Simon L. Howard, Sr.

A. J. Baumann, St. Louis, Mo. (E. G. Nahler and M. G. Roberts, St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co.,

Charles R. Judge, St. Louis, Mo. (W. Donald Dubail, St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and C. O. Carnahan, General Chairman, etc.

Before SANBORN, JOHNSEN and RIDDICK, Circuit Judges.


JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.

For more than 40 years, there has existed historically on the "Frisco" Railway a class of positions and employees known as "train porter."1 The essence of the duties of this class or craft has always been the performance of the necessary braking work on the head end of Frisco's passenger trains. The holders of the position have been required to undergo the same training and to possess the same qualification as those...

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