Hood v. McGehee
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCtTIT COURT OF APPEALS. FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. The facts,, which involve the construction of an instrument of adoption and the question of whether full faith and credit was given thereto in an action in another State, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is a bill to.quiet title to land in Alabama. It was dismissed by the Circuit. Court, on ■ demurrer and the decree was affirmed without further discussion by the Circuit Court of Appeals. 189 Fed. Rep. 205. 199 Fed. Rep. 989. The plaintiffs and appellants-are children of the late General Hood and were adopted in Louisiana in 1880 by George T. McGehee, who bought the property in question in 1886. The defendants’ are McGehee’s heirs if the Louisiana adoption does not entitle the plaintiffs to the'Alabama land. The bill sets up that the adoption did entitle them to it by virtue of Article…
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