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Humble Oil & Refining Company, Defendant-Counterclaimant v. Eva Goggans Copeland, Eloise Welch Wright, Crozier Welch, Drayton N. Barksdale and the South Carolina National Bank of Charleston (Columbia Branch), of the Estate of Sarah Linda Welch, Deceased, Daniel R. Bullard, Wilfred T. Doherty, Lester Settegast, and Roger J. Wolfe, as Trustees of the Robert A. Welch Foundation, Interpleaded v. Eva Goggans Copeland, Eloise Welch Wright, Crozier Welch, Drayton N. Barksdale and the South Carolina National Bank or Charleston (Columbia Branch), of the Estate of Sarah Linda Welch, Deceased
See Note, Local Actions in the Federal Courts, 70 Harv.L.Rev. 708 (1967) 6 Clarke v. Clarke, 178 U.S. 186, 190, 195 , 20 S.Ct. 873, 876 , 44 L.Ed. 1028 (1900) 7 Illustrative of these cases are Purcell v. Summers, 126 F.2d 390 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 317 U.S. 640 , 63 S.Ct. 32 , 87 L.Ed. 516 (1942) (suit challenging validity of church merger); Title Guaranty & Surety Co. v. State of Missouri ex rel. and to Use of Stormfeltz, 105 F.2d 496 (8th Cir. 1939) (action against surety on guardianship bond); Stewart Oil Co. v. Sohio Petroleum Co., 185 F.Supp. 765 (E.D.Ill.1960), aff'd 315 F.2d 759 (7th…
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First Congregational Church & Society of Burlington v. Evangelical & Reformed Church
See Purcell v. Summers, 4 Cir., 1942, 126 F.2d 390, 393-394 , certiorari denied 317 U.S. 640 , 63 S.Ct. 32 , 87 L.Ed. 516 ; Borchard, Declaratory Judgments, 2d Ed., pp. 312-314, 685-686.
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El Bey v. Moorish Science Temple of America, Inc.
Accord, Pilgrim Holiness Church v. First Pilgrim Holiness Church, 115 Ill.App.2d 448 , 252 N.E.2d 1, 7 (1969) (the right to protection of the good will in one’s name extends to nonprofit organizations); see also Purcell v. Summers, 126 F.2d 390, 394 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 317 U.S. 640 , 63 S.Ct. 32 , 87 L.Ed. 516 (1942); National Board of the Young Women’s Christian Ass’n v. Young Women’s Christian Ass’n of Charleston, S.C., 335 F.Supp. 615, 621 (D.S.C.1971); 37 A.L.R.3d 277 , 27 A.L.R.2d 954 .
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Chemical Bank v. Affiliated FM Insurance
See, e.g., Nieschlag & Co. v. Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co., 43 F.Supp. 797 (S.D.N.Y.1941), aff'd, 126 F.2d 834 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 317 U.S. 640 , 63 S.Ct. 31 , 87 L.Ed. 516 (1942) (financial loan losses due to fraudulent warehouse receipts for bags of cocoa beans never received); Scarburgh Co., Inc. v. American Manufacturers Mutual Ins.
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Summers
v.
Purcell
v.
Purcell
No. 117.
Supreme Court of the United States.
Oct 12, 1942.
Mr. Collins Denny, Jr. for petitioners. Messrs. J. Morgan Stevens, Walter McElreath,, J. T. Jaynes, and Orville A. Park for respondents.
Published
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied.