Conn v. Rice
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Texas; Waller T. Burns, Judge. Action by R. C. Conn against Joe S. Rice and others, as receivers, etc. Judgment for plaintiff for less than relief demanded, and he appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Texas; Waller T. Burns, Judge. Action by R. C. Conn against Joe S. Rice and others, as receivers, etc. Judgment for plaintiff for less than relief demanded, and he appeals. On the 24th day of April. 1905, Charles Dillingham, receiver of the Houston Oil Company of Texas, instituted an ancillary suit in the United States Circuit Court, Southern District of Texas, against G. W. Lewis, for the title and possession of 160 acres of land out of the southwest corner of the W. O. Armstrong survey in Newton couni y. The…
1Opinion of the Court
PARDEE, Circuit' Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Under the decision of this court (Lewis v. Dillingham, 167 Fed. 779, 93 C. C. A. 267) Lewis, at the institution of the proceedings against him, was the owner of the land in contest. Lewis' deed to Coku, duly recorded, conveyed the north one-half, so that at the time the trespass was committed, and the timber cut and removed, by the receivers of the Houston Oil Company of Texas and the receivers of the Kirby Lumber Company acting in conjunction, Lewis and Conn were the parties damaged.
[tj The subsequent assignment by Lewis to Conn of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Lewis v. DillinghamCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1909
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- Green v. Southern Timber Co.District Court, S.D. Georgia · 1923
- Thompson & Ford Lumber Co. v. DillinghamCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1915