Legal Opinion
Julia E. Duke v. Gene Durfee and Laura Durfee, Gene Durfee and Laura Durfee v. Julia E. Duke
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 11, 1962No. 16763, 16764PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BLACKMUN, Circuit Judge.
This action is another chapter in a controversy over several hundred acres of land, once an island, in the Missouri River bottoms a short distance east and south of Rulo, Nebraska, and west and south of Fortesque, Missouri. It comes to us by way of appeals from a judgment dismissing the plaintiff’s petition and the defendants’ cross-complaint.
The basic factual situation is not untypical of these riverland title controversies yet the case admittedly presents not only simple and rather classical facts but issues which appear to possess some first impression aspects in…
2Cases cited62 opinions
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- Williams v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
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3Cited by6 opinions
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- United States v. WilsonDistrict Court, N.D. Iowa · 1981
- John Schroeder, Roy M. Harrop and Homestead Corporation v. 171.74 Acres of Land, More or Less, United States of America, Ned Tyson and Irma TysonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1963
- State v. American Can Co.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1964
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