Legal Opinion
Strickland v. Peters
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 15, 1941No. 9713PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.
The questions we shall decide mainly relate to the equitable jurisdiction of the district court, and the case will be stated with special reference, to them.. .
C. F. Peters and his wife Blanche N. Peters, seventy-nine and seventy-five years of age in 1937, and citizens of Florida, owned land there as tenants by the entireties and personal property of the aggregate value of about $50,000. Because of mental failure Mr. Peters was confined in a sanitarium, J. A. Strickland being his physician. On November 18, 1937, by court proceedings, Dr. Strickland was appointed guardian…
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