Hudson v. Randolph
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas. This was a suit by L. V. F. Randolph against C. P. Hudson and the Scottish-American Mortgag'd Company, Limited, for the recovery of land, an accounting, and other relief. The circuit1 court rendered a decree for the complainants. Defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
PARDEE, Circuit Judge.
The appellant C. P. Hudson assigns as error in the proceedings in the circuit court that the court overruled the demurrer to the complainant’s bill, contending that, on the face of the bill, the court ivas without jurisdiction in equity to grant relief. If the bill is viewed purely as one brought by the holder of the legal title to real estate against parties in pos*217session, to recover possession with rents and profits, and to remove clouds from title, the assignment of error is well taken. It lias been settled since Hipp v. Babin, 19 How. 271, that the holdei of a legal…
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