BROTHERHOOD OF LOC. F. & E. v. SOUTHERN PAC. CO. (T. & L. L.)

No. 30803.

447 F.2d 1127 (1971)

BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN AND ENGINEMEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY (TEXAS AND LOUISIANA LINES), Defendant-Appellee, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Party Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 30, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Fonville, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.

Marvin Menaker, Bader, Wilson, Menaker & Cox, Dallas, Tex., for Brotherhood of Loc. Engineers.

V. Reagan Burch, Jr., Baker & Botts, Houston, Tex., for Southern Pac. Co.

Before GOLDBERG, GODBOLD, and RONEY, Circuit Judges.


GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

In this labor case railroad brotherhoods, belying their names, engaged in fratricidal war involving their pater-familias, the Southern Pacific Railroad. Congress, finding the courts ill-equipped to exercise Solomonic wisdom in these family disputes, derailed most judicial interventions by means of the Railway Labor Act. We therefore decline to interfere in this intramural controversy and remit the parties to the tribunal created by Congress...

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