Terpstra v. Farmers and Merchants Bank

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Unlike criminal cases, where defendants have a 6th or 14th Amendment right to counsel, in civil proceedings, persons do not have those same rights”
• even where plaintiff did follow procedures for statutory quiet title action, “longstanding common law predating the quiet title statute provides an independent equitable basis for quieting title.”
• “A trial judge has control over the proceedings in his [or her] court, and his [or her] duty is to conduct business expeditiously consistent with orderly procedure and the administration of justice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).