Hodge v. Palms
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of the United Htates for the Eastern district of Michigan. This was a suit, by John L. Hodge and Andrew H. Sands against Francis S. Balms and oliters, trustees of ihe estate of Francis Palms, deceased, and others, to impress a trust upon the legal title to certain lands, and for an accounting. The circuit court sustained a demurrer to the bill. Complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
SEVERENS, District Judge.
This is a suit in equity instituted by a bill filed in the United States circuit court for the Eastern district of Michigan. The case stated in the bill resembles that of Garrett v. Boeing (No. 197) 68 Fed. 51, in all essential particulars except one. The equitable title which the complainants assert is founded upon a deferred private land claim against the United States, of date 1789, for 2,708 acres of land, which land claim originally belonged to one Antonio Vaca. Similar proceedings to those in the Garrett Case were had in the year 1872 in the parish court of…
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- Meader v. NortonSupreme Court of the United States · 1871
- Widdicombe v. ChildersSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
- Garrett v. BoeingCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1895
- Grevemberg v. BradfordSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1892
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