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ROLAX v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO.

Civ. A. No. 670.

91 F.Supp. 585 (1950)

ROLAX et al. v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO. et al.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Richmond Division.

As Amended by Supplemental Opinion July 18, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph C. Waddy, and Charles H. Houston, Washington, D. C., Oliver W. Hill, Richmond, Virginia, and Thurgood Marshall, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Collins Denny, Jr., Richmond, Virginia, for defendant Railroad.

William G. Maupin, Norfolk, Virginia, Ralph M. Hoyt, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for defendant Brotherhood.

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

This action was filed under the Railway Labor Act, Title 45, U.S.C.A., Chapter 8. The two plaintiffs, who are Negro locomotive firemen, sued individually and as representatives of all the Negro locomotive firemen employed by the defendant, Atlantic Coast Line Railway Company. In general, the basis of the complaint is that the defendant, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, hereafter referred to as the Brotherhood, and the Atlantic...

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