Slaughter v. Mallet Land & Cattle Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas. This suit was brought in the United States Circuit Court on December 25, 1903, by the Mallet Land & Cattle Company, a corporation duly incorporated under the laws of the state of Missouri, for an injunction to restrain the defendant, C. C. Slaughter, from trespassing upon the plaintiff’s land, known as the Edwards county school lands, consisting of 17,712 acres situated in Hockley county,…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas. This suit was brought in the United States Circuit Court on December 25, 1903, by the Mallet Land & Cattle Company, a corporation duly incorporated under the laws of the state of Missouri, for an injunction to restrain the defendant, C. C. Slaughter, from trespassing upon the plaintiff’s land, known as the Edwards county school lands, consisting of 17,712 acres situated in Hockley county, Texas, and to remove cloud from title to said lands. The substantial facts set forth in the plaintiff’s bill and…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). The jurisdiction of the Circuit Court was attacked on the charge that the transfer of the property from De Vitt & Flato to the complainant was colorable and collusive, for the purpose of bringing suit in the United States court • for the Northern District of Texas. The appellant states his conten*286tion in this court in the second and third assignments of error as follows :
“Second. The trial court erred by overruling respondent’s plea to the jurisdiction filed and presented in said cause, for tbe reason that it was made to appear by tbe proof taken and introduced on…
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