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· 12/5/1887

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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