Joseph Guffey v. Susannah Smith

• Citation: 59 L.Ed. 866,237 U.S. 120,35 S.Ct. 532
• Decision Date: 05 April 1915
• Docket Number: No. 87,87
• Parties: JOSEPH F. GUFFEY et al., Petitioners, v. SUSANNAH SMITH et al
• Court: U.S. Supreme Court

237 U.S. 120

35 S.Ct. 532

59 L.Ed. 866

JOSEPH F. GUFFEY et al., Petitioners,

v. SUSANNAH SMITH et al.

No. 87.

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued December 2 and 3, 1914.

April 5, 1915

Messrs. Joseph W. Bailey, J. H. Beal, and Robert J. Dodds for petitioners.

Mr. Jay A. Hindman for respondents.

Mr. Justice Van Devanter delivered the opinion of the court:

This case is, in all material respects, like that of Guffey v. Smith, just decided [237 U. S. 101, 59 L. ed. ——, 35 Sup. Ct. Rep. 526]. The two cases were argued together, and the views expressed in that are decisive of this.

The decrees below are reversed, and the case is remanded to the District Court, with like directions as in that case.

Decree reversed.