Legal Opinion
Demmer v. Stroude
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided September 19, 1941PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ATWELL, District Judge.
Demmer, and twelve others, nonresidents, allege that they are all of the heirs of Katie Peterson, deceased. That at the time of her. *796death, defendant Stroude owed her a promissory note in the sum of $8,500. That Peterson, who claimed to be her common law husband, succeeded in securing possession of that note and turned it over to Stroude for $4,000 cash, and that the note has been destroyed. That it was secured by a deed of trust upon certain property, which deed of trust has been released, and the property is about to be sold to another person.
It is also alleged that…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Adams v. Bankers' Life Co.Texas Commission of Appeals · 1931
- Cole v. Franklin Life Ins.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1937
- Booth v. Merchants Nat. Bank of BrownsvilleCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1938
- Peterson v. DemmerDistrict Court, N.D. Texas · 1940