Legal Opinion
First State Bank v. Chicago, R. I. & P. R.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 16, 1933No. 9599PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KENYON, Circuit Judge.
Appellee, herein termed plaintiff, filed a hill in equity in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas against Bankers’ Trust Company, Union' Trust Company, and First State Bank (corporations of Arkansas) as defendants (so designated here), asking that they be restrained from subjecting the plaintiff to a multiplicity of suits and to vexatious litigation by the bringing of separate suits to recover from plaintiff on each of forty-eight alleged forged bills of lading. A motion to dismiss was made by defendants on the grounds that the court had…
2Cases cited52 opinions
- Matthews v. RodgersSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Troy Bank v. G. A. Whitehead & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1911
- Hale v. AllinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Boise Artesian Hot & Cold Water Co. v. Boise CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1909
- McElroy v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Richard H. Clinton v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1961
- Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields v. KilkearyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1953
- Jamerson v. Alliance Ins. Co. of PhiladelphiaCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1937
- Merritt M. Meredith v. John Deere Plow Company of Moline, IllinoisCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1958
- Equitable Life Assur. Soc. v. WertCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1939
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