Legal Opinion
Doby v. Brown
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided April 9, 1956No. 7137PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal from an order dismissing a suit instituted by landowners to obtain a declaratory judgment as to their rights and to enjoin prosecution of the condemnation proceedings which were before the Supreme Court of North Carolina in Brown v. Doby, 242 N.C. 462, 87 S.E.2d 921. The District Judge, in addition to holding that the jurisdictional amount was not involved in the case and that interference with an in rem action in a state court was asked, held that no federal question was involved either under the civil rights statute or otherwise and that, even if there…
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