Bardon v. Land & River Improvement Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN. This was a bill in equity, filed under section 3186 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Wisconsin, by the Land and River Improvement Company, a corporation of New Jersey, against Thomas Bardon, a citizen of the State of Wisconsin, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Wisconsin, to have certain conveyances declared void and to quiet the title to the…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN. This was a bill in equity, filed under section 3186 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Wisconsin, by the Land and River Improvement Company, a corporation of New Jersey, against Thomas Bardon, a citizen of the State of Wisconsin, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Wisconsin, to have certain conveyances declared void and to quiet the title to the southeast quarter of section.28, township 49 N., range 14 W., in Douglas County, Wisconsin. The section in question is as…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief' Justice Fuller
delivered the opinion of the court.
We remarked in Gormley v. Clark, 134 U. S. 338, 348, that while the rule was well settled that remedies in the courts of the United States at common law or in equity, according to the' essential character of the case, are uncontrolled in that particular by the practice of the state courts, yet an enlargement of equitable rights by state statutes may be administered by the Circuit Courts of the United States, as well as by the courts of the State; and when the case is one of a remedial proceeding, essentially of an equitable…
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