Hauke v. Cooper
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas. This action was instituted by J. D. Cooper, grantee of M. A. Cooper, to recover 258 acres of land situated in Bosque county, in the state of Texas.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas. This action was instituted by J. D. Cooper, grantee of M. A. Cooper, to recover 258 acres of land situated in Bosque county, in the state of Texas. The common source of title ivas one C. O. Nelson, who was a merchant doing business in Clifton, Tex., and whose property was seized and sold at the suit of various creditors;. The defendant, Hauke, acquired title at a sheriff’s sale, made December 30, 1805, in the suit of Baer, Seasongood & Co. against C. O. Nelson, under a writ of attachment levied on the 1st…
1Opinion of the Court
After stating the facts as above, the opinion of the court was delivered by
PARDEE, Circuit Judge.
“Neither the benefit of judgments on the one side, nor the obligations on the other, are limited exclusively to parties and their privies. Or, in other words, there is a numerous and important class of persons who, being neither parties upon the record nor acquirers of interests from those parties after the commencement of the suit, are nevertheless bound by the judgment. Prominent among these are persons on whose behalf and under whose direction the suit is prosecuted or defended in the name of…
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