BASSETT v. TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY

No. 16465.

258 F.2d 819 (1958)

Jack H. BASSETT, Appellant, v. The TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY, and System Federation No. 121 of Railway Employees' Department, A.F. of L.-C.I.O., et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 18, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Ford, Asst. U. S. Atty., Dallas, Tex., Samuel D. Slade, Bernard Cedarbaum, Attys. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Heard L. Floore, U. S. Atty., Ft. Worth, Tex., for appellant.

J. Hart Willis, Hart Willis, Jr., Willis & Willis, Dallas, Tex., Mulholland, Robie & Hickey, Toledo, Ohio, for appellees, System Federation No. 121, etc., et al.

Robertson, Jackson, Payne, Lancaster & Walker, Dallas, Tex., Richard R. Lyman, Toledo, Ohio, Donald C. Fitch, Jr., Dallas, Tex., for appellee, Texas & Pac. R. Co.

Before RIVES and CAMERON, Circuit Judges, and DAWKINS, District Judge.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, Jack H. Bassett, is an honorably discharged veteran of the United States Army. He seeks to enforce employment rights under Section 9 of the Universal Military Training and Service Act of 1951, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 459. The applicable portion of this Act appears in the margin.1 Upon oral argument of this case, this Court issued an order on May 28, 1957...

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