Guarantee Trust & Safe-Deposit Co. v. Delta & Pine-Land Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi. The court adopts, with some changes and modifications, the statement of the case prepared by counsel for the Delta & Pine-Land Company.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi. The court adopts, with some changes and modifications, the statement of the case prepared by counsel for the Delta & Pine-Land Company. The Guarantee Trust & Safe-Deposit Company filed the bill in equity in tins case or> March 4, 1898, in the United States circuit court for the Western division of the Southern district of Mississippi, against the Delta & Pine-Land Company, the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, the Delta Development Company, and others. This proceeding involves the question…
1Opinion of the CourtMaxey, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The questions submitted for our determination arise upon the ruling of the circuit court in sustaining the demurrers interposed by the ap-pellees to the original and amended bills of complaint. The fourth cause of demurrer assigned by the appellees claims that the sale made under the decree of the United States circuit court for the Western district of Tennessee was void because the court was without jurisdiction to order the sale of lands situated within the state of Mississippi. The appellant, as a subsequent purchaser of the lands, relies upon the deed…
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