Goode v. Gaines
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN "DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. The court stated the case as follows: These were bills in equity filed by William. H. Gaines and wife, on the 23d of May, 1884, against the appellants, respectively, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas, all seeking the same relief, and couched, mutatis mutandis, in substantially the same language.
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN "DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. The court stated the case as follows: These were bills in equity filed by William. H. Gaines and wife, on the 23d of May, 1884, against the appellants, respectively, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas, all seeking the same relief, and couched, mutatis mutandis, in substantially the same language. The bill in No. 302, Smith v. Gaines, was as follows: “William H. Gaines and Maria Gaines his wife, bring this suit against John Kubler and George H. Smith, and for…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chiee Justioe Fuller,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of. the court.
It is unnecessary to enter upon a history of the “Hot Springs litigation,” as detailed in Rector v. United States; Hale v. United States; Gaines v. United States, 92 U. S. 698; and Rector v. Gibbon, 111 U. S. 276.
As to the title of the lots in question, we repeat what was .said in Lawrence v. Rector, 137 U. S. 139, “that nothing was developed in answer or testimony to disturb the conclusions of law heretofore reached by this court.” The argument for appellants has been elaborate and exhaustive, but does not…
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