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RICHARDSON v. TEXAS AND NEW ORLEANS RAILROAD CO.

Civ. A. No. 9240.

140 F.Supp. 215 (1956)

R. RICHARDSON et al., Plaintiffs, v. TEXAS AND NEW ORLEANS RAILROAD COMPANY et al., Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

March 28, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roberson L. King, Houston, Tex., Joseph C. Waddy, William C. Gardner, and William B. Bryant, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Baker, Botts, Andrews & Shepherd, Hugh M. Patterson and Robert L. Steely, Houston, Tex., for Defendant Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company.

Jacobs & Schmidt, George L. Schmidt, Houston, Tex., Willis & Willis, J. Hart Willis, Dallas, Tex., and Wayland K. Sullivan, Cleveland, Ohio, for defendants Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and others.

INGRAHAM, District Judge.

This is a suit filed by four plaintiffs who allege that they are Negroes employed as yardmen by the defendant Railroad, suing for themselves and all other Negro yardmen as a class, against Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company, hereinafter referred to as T&NO, and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, an unincorporated association, Bayou City Lodge, No. 145, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, an unincorporated association, L. Bradley, President...

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