Legal Opinion
Bird v. Stein
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 30, 1958No. 16826PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit for an accounting by two sisters against their brother as trustee. The sisters, Mrs. Brynia Stein Bird and Mrs. Ethel Stein Gold, describe their brother, Lawrence Stein, as “a modern Esau who in sheep’s clothing * * * deprived them of their rightful inheritance”. Lawrence accuses his sisters of wanting to “crush out [his] economic life in order that they may plunder the product of a lifetime’s toil”.
The case is before us for the second time. The sisters, successful on the first appeal but appellants again, charge the trial judge with “again gulping hook,…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Brabham v. BrabhamMississippi Supreme Court · 1955
- Bush v. BushMississippi Supreme Court · 1924
- Logan v. JohnsonMississippi Supreme Court · 1894
- Layman Bynum, J. B. Johnson, E. A. Dillard, Irby Jackson, Leon C. Roe and Gwyn Crouse v. Baggett Transportation Company, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1956
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- Manget Brothers, Inc. v. The Bank of Greenwood, Greenwood, MississippiCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
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