Legal Opinion

Barnes v. Boyd

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Decided November 19, 1934No. 3694PublishedCited by 11 opinions

1Per curiam

This suit in equity brought before the District Court for the third time the claim that the heirs at law of William A. McMullen, who died intestate in 1872, were deprived of large tracts of land in Kanawha county, W. Va., by an arbitration award in 1876 and a judgment of the circuit court of that county based thereon in 1877, which, it is alleged, were wrongfully obtained through a fraudulent conspiracy. The first suit was brought by Nelson V. McMullen, a grandson of William A. McMullen; the second suit was brought by Rose Cooke Morse, a granddaughter of William A. McMullen, and the pending…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Whitehead v. ShattuckSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
  2. Henrietta Mills v. Rutherford CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1930
  3. McMullen v. LewisCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1929

3Cited by11 opinions

  1. In Re Uranium Antitrust Litigation. Westinghouse Electric CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1980
  2. United States v. Standard Oil Company of CaliforniaDistrict Court, S.D. California · 1937
  3. Harlan v. SparksCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1942
  4. Bastien v. R. Rowland & Co.District Court, E.D. Missouri · 1986
  5. Chicago Title & Trust Co. v. Fox Theatres CorporationDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1960

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