Legal Opinion
Williams v. Tooke
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 9, 1940No. 9273PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FOSTER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from a judgment dismissing a suit for want of jurisdiction. The suit is by Susie Williams and some 18 others against Allen Tooke and some 40 others. Many of the parties on both sides are citizens of Texas. Jurisdiction depends upon whether a substantial Federal questipn is properly presented, for decision. The complaint is very lengthy, occupying, with exhibits, 153 pages of the printed transcript. However, the case as disclosed by the allegations of the complaint, may be somewhat Briefly stated, as follows:
On March 14, 1917, B. F. Phillips conveyed to…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- American Railway Express Co. v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1927
- Williams v. TookeCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1938
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- John M. Hagerty v. Succession of Laura McCloskey ClementCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1984
- Dawn Elaine Brown, by and Through Gayle (Brown) Marden, as Her Mother and Next Friend, Cross v. Dixie Herlong Chastain, CrossCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- Omri E. Daniels, Jr., Barge Hiskey and Bentley M. McMullin v. C. Sewell ThomasCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1955
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