Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Umsted
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 1, 1933No. 9539PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The appellant will be referred to as plaintiff, and the appellees as defendants, as in the court below. The plaintiff is an illiterate colored woman about 60 years of age. The defendants are the administratrix of the estate and the heirs of Sid Umsted, a white man, who died November 3,1925. The suit is brought in equity to recover an undivided one-quarter interest in 80 acres of land in Ouachita county, Ark., upon which there are eight producing oil wells, and for an accounting of the royalties collected therefrom by Sid Umsted during his lifetime and by his estate…
2Cases cited70 opinions
- Sullivan v. Portland & Kennebec RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Trice v. ComstockCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1903
- Kirby v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Kelley v. BoettcherCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1898
- Godden v. KimmellSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
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3Cited by42 opinions
- Leimer v. State Mut. Life Assur. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1940
- Thornton v. CarterCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1940
- Carr v. Yokohama Specie Bank, Limited, of San FranciscoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1952
- Winget v. RockwoodCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1934
- ætna Life Ins. Co. v. KeplerCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1941
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