Legal Opinion
American Baptist Home Mission Soc. v. Barnett
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 7, 1928PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWAN, Circuit Judge.
The facts will be stated only so far as necessary for disposition of these motions; a fuller statement may be found in the opinion of the District Court reported in Barnett v. Equitable Trust Co., 21 F.(2d) 325. Briefly, suit was brought by Barnett, a full-blooded Creek Indian, by his next friend, against the Equitable Trust Company of New York and the American Baptist Home Mission Society, to set. aside as void, because of Barnett’s mental incompetence, an attempted gift by him of United States Liberty Loan Bonds of the par value of $550,000. These bonds and other…
2Cases cited34 opinions
- Masterson v. HerndonSupreme Court of the United States · 1870
- Hardee v. WilsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Estis v. TrabueSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
- Jacobs v. GeorgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Thomas Deye Owings and Others v. Andrew KincannonSupreme Court of the United States · 1833
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Scott v. BeamsCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1941
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- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Securities Corp. of New York v. W. L. Shepherd Lumber Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1931
- United States v. King & Howe, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1935
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