Legal Opinion
Boone v. Lightner
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided October 11, 1943No. 698PublishedCited by 324 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Jackson
The federal question in this case is whether a stay of proceedings against a defendant in military service has been refused under circumstances which denied rights given by the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Eelief Act of 1940. The controversy in which he was engaged is for state courts to settle, and we deal with the facts only as they relate to this federal question.
The petitioner Boone was summoned into a state court in North Carolina in an action to require him to account as trustee of a fund for his minor daughter, to remove him as trustee, to surcharge his accounts for losses caused by *562ill…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Cooper v. DasherSupreme Court of the United States · 1933
- Lightner v. . BooneSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1942
- Swiderski v. MoodenbaughDistrict Court, D. Oregon · 1942
- Swiderski v. MoodenbaughDistrict Court, D. Oregon · 1942
- Dietz v. TreupelAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1918
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3Cited by324 opinions
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- Fishgold v. Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Conroy v. AniskoffSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Womack v. BerryTexas Supreme Court · 1956
- Margaret A. Cheeseman v. Office of Personnel ManagementCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1986
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