Litchfield v. Goodnow's Administrator
Citations
- 123 U.S. 549
- 8 S. Ct. 210
- 31 L. Ed. 199
- 1887 U.S. LEXIS 2194
Syllabus
<p>Error to The Supreme Court of The State of Iowa.</p> <p>Stryker v. Goodnow, ante, 527, applied as to the effect of Wolcott v. Des Moines Co., 5 Wall. 681.</p> <p>The plaintiff in error’s intestate was not a party to Homestead Company v. Valley Railroad, nor in privity with those who were parties, and was not bound by the proceedings; and, as estoppels to be good must be mutual, the Homestead Company and its assignees were not bound.</p>
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- defining privity to include a “mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property”
- defining privity as “mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property”
- defining privity as “mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property”
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Judges: Waite
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