KIRKLAND v. ARKANSAS-BEST FREIGHT SYSTEMS, INC.

Nos. 79-1580, 79-1620.

629 F.2d 538 (1980)

Glenn P. KIRKLAND, Lloyd Barrentine, R. C. Moore, W. D. Rogers, Charles W. Coble, Robert Jones, C. L. Allen, Jim Lovell, Appellees, v. ARKANSAS-BEST FREIGHT SYSTEMS, INC.; International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America; Southern Conference of Teamsters and Central States Conference of Teamsters, Appellants. Glenn P. KIRKLAND, Lloyd Barrentine, R. C. Moore, W. D. Rogers, Charles W. Coble, Robert Jones, C. L. Allen, Jim Lovell, Appellees, v. ARKANSAS-BEST FREIGHT SYSTEMS, INC., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 25, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond F. Beagle, Jr., Gage & Tucker, Kansas City, Mo., argued, Richard B. McKelvey and Robert J. Harrop, Kansas City, Mo., and Thomas Harper, Harper, Young & Smith, Fort Smith, Ark., on brief, for Arkansas-Best Freight Systems, Inc.

L. N. D. Wells, Jr., Mullinax, Wells, Baab, Cloutman & Chapman, Dallas, Tex., argued, David Leo Uelmen and Scott D. Soldon, Goldberg, Previant & Uelmen, Milwaukee, Wis. and John T. Lavey, Little Rock, Ark., on brief, for Intern. Broth. of Teamsters, etc., et al.

David E. Smith, Bryant, Ark., argued, Ted Boswell, Bryant, Ark., on brief, for appellees.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, and BRIGHT and HENLEY, Circuit Judges.


HENLEY, Circuit Judge.

This is a labor case involving the interstate trucking business that was decided adversely to the defendants in 1979 by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.* Two appeals were taken; those appeals have been consolidated and considered together.

The formal plaintiffs are Glenn P. Kirkland, Lloyd Barrentine, R. C. Moore, W. D. Rogers, Charles W. Coble, Robert Jones, C. L. Allen...

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