McClelland v. Cowden

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Brought in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas on allegations of diversity, the primary object of the suit was to have plaintiff declared a joint owner and defendant trustee for her of one-half of a ranch in New Mexico which defendant had purchased and taken title to in his own name.

In the alternative, it was for damages for fraud in the sum of $250,000.00, one-half of the declared value of the ranch, in inducing plaintiff to enter into the agreement on which she based her claim to an interest in the property, and, in the further…