EDWARDS v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY

Nos. 10869, 10870, 10873.

376 F.2d 665 (1967)

Winslow M. EDWARDS, Appellee, v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellant. C. B. TAYLOR, Appellee, v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellant. Charlie SHEPPARD, Appellee, v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 3, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome Ackerman, Washington, D. C. (John S. Koch, W. Graham Claytor, Jr., James I. Hardy, Washington, D. C., William T. Joyner, Raleigh, N. C., and Thomas J. White, Kinston, N. C., and Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellant.

Thomas B. Griffin, Kinston, N. C. (W. Olin Reed, Kinston, N. C., on the brief), for appellees.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and BELL and CRAVEN, Circuit Judges.


CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

Southern Railway appeals from the award of benefits to three former employees1 of the Atlantic and East Carolina Railway (A&EC) under job security provisions imposed upon Southern by the Interstate Commerce Commission2 as a condition of assuming control of the A&EC. The appellees were discharged following Southern's acquisition of the...

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