COOK v. BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS

No. 45783.

309 S.W.2d 579 (1958)

Leland R. COOK, James Richie, John F. Price, Lonnie Gigers, Kelly May, A. L McDonald, I. R. A. Saville, Isom McMoore, J. O. McDonald, Rufus Pettis, Hopson Wilson, Theodore Wright, I. B. Woods, Curtis G. Neal, Appellants, v. BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS, an unincorporated association, T. D. McNeal, Vice-President, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Guy A. Thompson, Trustee, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Debtor, and Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, a Missouri corporation, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri. Division No. 2.

Motion for Rehearing or to Transfer Denied February 10, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor Packman, Irl B. Baris, Henry D. Espy, St. Louis, Joseph C. Waddy, Washington, D. C., of counsel, for appellants.

Clif. Langsdale, Kansas City, for Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and T. D. McNeal, respondents.

Harold L. Harvey, St. Louis, for respondent, Missouri Pac. Ry. Co.


Motion for Rehearing or to Transfer to Court en Banc Denied February 10, 1958.

EAGER, Judge.

This is a suit in equity filed by fourteen employees of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company who are designated for collective bargaining purposes as "Train Porters"; defendants are the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, T. D. McNeal, a Vice-President thereof, the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, and Guy A. Thompson, its Trustee (who needs no longer be considered...

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