Legal Opinion

Douthitt v. Smith

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided May 15, 1880PublishedCited by 13 opinions

From the Shelby Circuit Court.

1Opinion of the CourtNiblack, J.

This was a complaint for partition, by Lucinda Douthitt, widow of James Douthitt, against James E. Smith, Alonzo Douthitt, Mary L. Oldham, Gran-ville S. Oldham, John II. Douthitt, Ephraim M. Dou*464thitt, Dorothy J. Douthitt and William F. Douthitt, Smith being the administrator of the said James Douthitt and the other defendants his children and descendants.

The complaint alleged, that a short time before his death the said James Douthitt made a contract with one Joseph Jonas for the purchase of a fifty-acre tract of land in Shelby county, describing it, but died without receiving a conveyance…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Campbell v. RouttIndiana Supreme Court · 1873
  2. Grout v. ChamberlinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1808
  3. Schee v. McQuilkenIndiana Supreme Court · 1877
  4. Noble v. McGinnisIndiana Supreme Court · 1877
  5. Hadley v. PratherIndiana Supreme Court · 1878

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3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Standley v. Northwestern Mutual Life InsuranceIndiana Supreme Court · 1884
  2. Wainwright v. P. H. & F. M. Roots Co.Indiana Supreme Court · 1912
  3. Blue v. Capital National BankIndiana Supreme Court · 1896
  4. Langley v. MayhewIndiana Supreme Court · 1886
  5. Mesker v. BishopIndiana Court of Appeals · 1913

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