Legal Opinion
Holt v. St. Louis Union Trust Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 15, 1931No. 3173PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOPER, Circuit Judge.
Lawrence S. Holt, Jr., brought suit in the state court against the executors of the will of E. W. Grove, complaining that the executors had violated the terms of a contract made between him and the testator in regard to the sale of two lots of ground in the city of Asheville, N. C. The suit was removed, on the ground of diversity of citizenship, to the federal court, where the District Judge, being of the opinion that Holt had no right of recovery, dismissed the bill of complaint.
The evidence tended to prove the following state of facts: Grove was a man of high character…
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- Anderson v. WainwrightSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1899
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