M. M. Meredith v. Martin D. Van Oosterhout

M. M. Meredith, the appellant herein, commenced this action on February 10, 1960, in Iowa state district court, asking a money judgment against the appellee, Martin D. Van Oosterhout, a duly appointed and qualified United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit. The complaint alleged that the appellant has been injured because the appellee, “acting in his official capacity * * * adjudicated Civil Action No. 15666 and Civil Action No. 16036”; “* * * that defendant [appellee] made the aforesaid two adjudications in bad faith; that he knowingly and intentionally made them in a dishonest…