Copperthite v. Redmon

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals

Argued Sept. 30, 1958.

Decided Oct. 30,1958.

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1958-10-30

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently October 1958

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1958-10-30

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¶1Mr. I. William Stempil, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

¶2Mr. Harold P. Ganss, Washington, D. C., for appellees Albert Redmon and Helen Redmon.

¶3 *83Messrs. Israel J. Mendelson and Joseph L. Mendelson, Washington, D. C., for appellee Margaret Redmon.

¶4Before Bazelon, Fahy and Burger, Circuit Judges.

¶5PER CURIAM.

¶6Appellants brought suit in the District Court for, inter alia, reconveyance of real property, alleging that the property had been fraudulently obtained from Joseph B. Copperthite in 1942 through breach of trust. A former suit involving the same subject matter had been dismissed with prejudice in 1949, following a settlement out of court. Appellants additionally alleged that the settlement had been fraudulently procured.

¶7The court below dismissed the complaint, stating that appellants had unduly delayed instituting these proceedings. For reasons advanced by the District Court, its order must be

¶8Affirmed.