MISSION STATE BANK

v.

SPURGEON

Citator

Cited By

• Janzen v. Wilber W. Goos and Ivan Gottula, 302 F.2d 421 (8th Cir. 1962)
  …anently at the claimed domicil is not required. If a person capable of making his choice honestly regards a place as his present home, the motive prompting him is immaterial”. Spurgeon v. Mission State Bank, 1945, 151 F. 2d 702, 705-706, cert. den. 327 U.S. 782, 66 S.Ct. 682, 90 L.Ed. 1009. This language was repeated by us with approval in Maple Island Farm v. Bitterling, supra, p. 58 of 196 F. 2d, and in Ellis v. Southeast Construction Co., supra, p. 281 of 260 F. 2d. To the same effect are Welsh v. Ameri…
• Rogers v. Bates, 431 F.2d 16 (8th Cir. 1970)
  …onestly regards a place as his present home, the motive prompting him is immaterial. Janzen v. Goos, 302 F. 2d 421, 425 (8th Cir. 1962); quoting with approval from Spurgeon v. Mission State Bank, 151 F. 2d 702, 705-706 (8th Cir. 1945), cert. denied, 327 U.S. 782, 66 S.Ct. 682, 90 L.Ed. 1009 (1946). Prior to and at the time of the accident, Pahlow permanently resided in Alliance. Five days after Pahlow filed his initial complaint, he told Veteran’s Administration personnel at Hot Springs that he wanted to r…
• Stifel v. Hopkins, 477 F.2d 1116 (6th Cir. 1973)
  …le, Fed.R.Civ.P. 17(b), and although state law may define certain concepts or relations that bear on the question of a litigant’s disability to perform particular acts, see Spurgeon v. Mission State Bank, 151 F. 2d 702 (8th Cir. 1945), cert. denied, 327 U.S. 782, 66 S.Ct. 682, 90 L.Ed. 1009 (1946), the determination in a diversity case whether a litigant can acquire .citizenship in a particular state is a federal question to be resolved in accordance with federal principles. Cf. O’Brien v. Avco Corp., 425 F…