Sabine Hardwood Co. v. West Lumber Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas; Gordon Russell, Judge. Suit by the Sabine Hardwood Company, Rimited, against the West Dumber Company and others. From a decree for defendants (238 Fed. 611), complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WARKER, Circuit Judge.
By this suit the appellant asserts an interest in. land claimed to have been acquired by a conveyance of W. D. Gordon to it. Whatever interest Gordon had was involved in a suit in which'a final decree was rendered on December 4, 1911. Gordon was the attorney for H. P. Weir, a party to that suit. After the rendition of the decree just mentioned, Gordon acquired Weir’s interest in the land involved in the suit. In May, 1912, persons who had been parties to the suit in which the decree mentioned was rendered brought in the same court against Weir and others a suit, an…
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