Legal Opinion

Hopkins v. Hebard

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided November 30, 1914No. 30PublishedCited by 23 opinions

CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the principles controlling the granting of bills of review in cases affecting title to land, and their application to property the title to which is claimed under grants of different States, the boundary between which has long been in dispute, are stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice McReynolds

Court.

In 1907, petitioners, alleged successors to David W. Belding and others, filed a bill of review against the héirs and representatives of Charles Hebard in the United States Circuit Court, Eastern District of. Tennessee, wherein they sought ;tp reverse the decree for complainant granted by the same court, June 10, 1899, and later affirmed by the Circuit Court of Appeals in the cause entitled Hebard v. Belding, wbich was instituted to determine the title to some' seven thousand acres of mountain land. The Smoky Mountain Land, Lumber and Improvement Company intervened, , denied the alleged…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Thomas v. Gabrielle Brockenbrough, John Harvie, Edwin Harvie, Jacqueline Harvie, Julia Ann Harvie, Heirs at Law, and Devisees of John HarvieSupreme Court of the United States · 1825
  2. Ricker v. PowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
  3. Craig v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1879

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  3. Josephine C. Toscano AKA Josephine C. Zelasko v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1971
  4. Sutter v. EasterlySupreme Court of Missouri · 1945
  5. Bushnell v. CooperIllinois Supreme Court · 1919

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