ROLAX v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO.

No. 6167.

186 F.2d 473 (1951)

ROLAX et al. v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO. et al.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 3, 1951.

As Corrected on Denial of Rehearing February 23, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph C. Waddy, Washington, D. C., and Oliver W. Hill, Richmond, Va., for appellants and cross-appellees.

Ralph M. Hoyt, Milwaukee, Wis., and Wm. G. Maupin, Norfolk, Va. (Harold C. Heiss and Russell B. Day, Cleveland, Ohio, on brief), for Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, appellee and cross-appellant.

Collins Denny, Jr., Richmond, Va. (J. M. Townsend, Petersburg, Va., on brief), for Atlantic Coast Line R. Co., appellee.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


PARKER, Chief Judge.

These are cross appeals in a suit instituted in the court below by Negro locomotive firemen employed by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company against that company and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. The purpose of the suit was to have the court declare void the agreement of February 18, 1941, which was condemned by this court in Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen v...

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