Slater v. Rudderforth
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by tbe defendant from a decree of tbe Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in a suit to vacate a deed as having been fraudulently obtained.
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Hearing on an appeal by tbe defendant from a decree of tbe Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in a suit to vacate a deed as having been fraudulently obtained. The Court in the opinion stated the case as follows: This is a suit in equity instituted in the supreme court of the District by the appellees, Thomas H. Rudderforth, Frank W. Rudderforth, an infant, by his next friend, William H. Mullen, Daisy B. Palmer, Emma F. Thomas, and Mary Grace Mullen, as complainants against the appellants, Mattie R. Slater and John G. Slater, and three other persons who were brought in by amendment, as…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Morris
Upon full consideration of the record before us, and of the briefs and arguments of counsel, we find no reason to come to any different conclusion from that reached by the learned justice who sat in the court below, and we might well adopt as our own the very able and satisfactory opinion rendered by him in the cause.* In view of that opinion we will content ourselves with a few brief observations.
*5021. That Emma Smitson, afterwards Emma E. Eudderforth, took only a life estate, and not an estate in fee simple under the rule in Shelly’s Case, in the property here in controversy, and *503that upon ber…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Brown v. . WadsworthNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
3Cited by1 opinion
- Gay Union Corporation v. WallaceCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1940