BUCHANAN v. ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY CO.

No. 16651.

400 S.W.2d 362 (1966)

Thurman E. BUCHANAN et al., Appellants, v. ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY CO., Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

Rehearing Denied March 4, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Parnass, Weatherhogg & McGuire, Irving, for appellants.

Touchstone & Sampels, Dallas, for appellee.


DIXON, Chief Justice.

Eighteen plaintiffs, appellants here, brought separate suits in district courts in Dallas, Texas, against St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company, hereinafter called Railway, for recovery in a lump sum of separation allowances and wages alleged to be due them as former employees under Section 9 of the "Agreement of May 1936, Washington, D. C.", hereinafter called the Washington Agreement. In the alternative they claim their suits are common law...

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