Norton v. House of Mercy of New York
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas. This suit of trespass to try title was originally instituted in the state district court by the defendant in error, House of Mercy of New York, a charitable corporation organized under the laws of New York, to recover an undivided one-half interest in 48 surveys of land situated in various counties of the state of Texas.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas. This suit of trespass to try title was originally instituted in the state district court by the defendant in error, House of Mercy of New York, a charitable corporation organized under the laws of New York, to recover an undivided one-half interest in 48 surveys of land situated in various counties of the state of Texas. Several parties named as original defendants were dismissed from the suit, and as the record stood at the date of the trial the following were defendants: George W. Norton, executor, and…
1Opinion of the CourtMaxey, District Judge
The important question to be decided, in this case arises upon the third assignment of error, which devolves upon the court the duty to ascertain how far the litigation, prosecuted in the courts of Kentucky by the defendant in error, the heirs of Isaac Cromie, and others, may be determinative of the present controversy. It is insisted by the plaintiffs in error that the defendant in error is estopped from asserting title to the real estate involved in this suit, because the question to be determined by the circuit court was whether the title to ihe real estate devised to the House of Mercy of…
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