Legal Opinion
Claudine Hall v. Sylvia Garson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 22, 1970No. 29690_1PublishedCited by 172 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:
When Claudine Hall came home on the night of September 24, 1969, and found that her General Electric portable television set had been taken out of her apartment by Sylvia Garson, it is not likely that she realized that basic issues of Federal Court jurisdiction and the jurisdiction of that unfortunate step child of Federal procedure, the three-Judge Court, would be raised by her dispute with her landlady. But such has been the result.
Sylvia seized Claudine’s television under the authority of Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat. Ann. Art. 5238a, 1 which gives the landlord a lien on the…
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