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GRAF v. ELGIN, JOLIET AND EASTERN RY. CO.

No. 82-1864.

697 F.2d 771 (1983)

Daniel K. GRAF, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ELGIN, JOLIET AND EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, and Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, Local No. 882, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 7, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Cowgill, Cirricione, Block, Krockey & Cornugel, P.C., Joliet, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

W. Gerald Thursby, Chicago, Ill., Thomas A. Woodley, Mulholland & Hickey, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Before WOOD, ESCHBACH and POSNER, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

We consider in this appeal issues of federal jurisdiction and labor law arising out of the attempt of a railroad worker, Daniel Graf, to sue his union, a local union of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, and his employer, the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway.

Graf sustained a concussion in an accident at work. In the course of investigating the accident the railroad learned that when Graf had been hired two years earlier he had not...

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