Legal Opinion

Wise v. Watts

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided January 8, 1917No. 2719PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the District of Arizona; William H, Sawtille, Judge. Suit in equity by Cornelius C. Watts and- Dabney C. T. Davis, Jrv against Joseph E. Wise, Margaret W. Wise, Lucia J. Wise, James E. Bouldin, Jennie N. Bouldin, David W. Bouldin, Helen Lee Bouldin, and the Santa Cruz Development Company. Decree for complainants and certain of the defendants, and the remaining defendants appeal.

1Opinion of the Court

ROSS, Circuit Judge.

This suit was commenced in the court below on the 23d day of June, 1914, by Cornelius C. Watts and Dabney C T. Davis, Jr., to quiet title to a tract of land containing 99,289.39 acres, situate in what was formerly the territory of New Mexico, but what is now Santa Cruz county in the state of Arizona. The defendants answered, and it was stipulated by and between the respective parties, among other things, “that the pleadings by way of answer of each arid every defendant herein, heretofore or hereafter duly served upon the solicitors for the plaintiffs or upon the solicitors…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Philadelphia Co. v. StimsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
  2. Noble v. Union River Logging RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
  3. Maxwell Land-Grant CaseSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
  4. Van Renesselaer v. KearneySupreme Court of the United States · 1851
  5. Priest v. Trustees of Town of Las VegasSupreme Court of the United States · 1914

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3Cited by13 opinions

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  3. State v. CoerverArizona Supreme Court · 1966
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  5. Henningsen v. StrombergMontana Supreme Court · 1950

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