WITHERSPOON v. G.I.B.L. E.

19566

260 S.C. 117 (1973)

194 S.E.2d 399

W. E. WITHERSPOON et al., Appellants, v. GRAND INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

February 8, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E.N. Zeigler, Esq., of Florence, for Appellants.

Messrs. Julius W. McKay, of Columbia, and Wright, Scott, Blackwell & Powers, and Willcox, Hardee, Palmer & O'Farrell, McLeod & Buyck, of Florence, and John W. Weldon, Edward A. Charron, of Jacksonville, Florida, and Ross & Kraushaar, of Cleveland, Ohio, for Respondents.

E.N. Zeigler, of Florence, for Appellants, in Reply.


February 8, 1973.

LITTLEJOHN, Justice:

This action finds origination in discontent with the method used to consolidate seniority rosters upon merger of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL) and the Seaboard Airline Railroad (SAL) into one railroad, known as the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. We are called upon to determine if the defendant Grand International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE) and defendant Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (Seaboard) used...

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