Legal Opinion

Plumb v. Goodnow's Administrator

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided December 5, 1887PublishedCited by 20 opinions

This was an action to recover the amount of taxes paid on real estate in Iowa under circumstances similar in the main to those described in Stryker v. Goodnow, ante, 527. This cause was argued with that cause. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite

This is another suit brought by Edward K. Goodnow, assignee of the Iowa Homestead Company, to recover taxes paid on "Des Moines River Lands" for the years 1864 to 1871, both inclusive. For a general statement of the facts reference is made to Stryker v. Goodnow, ante, 527. Plumb, the plaintiff in error, was defendant below, and set up the prior adjudication in the suit of Homestead Company v. Valley Railroad, 17 Wall. 153, as a bar to the action. This defence was overruled, and a judgment given against him on the ground that he was not a party to that suit. Goodnow v. Plumbe, 64 Iowa, 672.…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Homestead Company v. Valley RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
  2. Goodnow v. PlumbeSupreme Court of Iowa · 1884

3Cited by20 opinions

  1. Hansberry v. LeeSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
  2. Independent Wireless Telegraph Co. v. Radio Corp. of AmericaSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
  3. McGregor v. Provident Trust Co.Supreme Court of Florida · 1935
  4. Newberry Library v. Board of EducationIllinois Supreme Court · 1944
  5. Farmers Co-Op. Oil Co. v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1942

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