Daniel Ringo
Judge Ringo no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Ringo decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
He demanded allegations showing that a tax sale rested on legal authority before allowing the purchaser to invoke the limitations defense.
“Unless these facts be shown, and perhaps some others not here enumerated, it seems clear that the officer would possess no authority to act or sell, and if he did so, his act would be void.”
He treated jurisdiction over a pending prosecution as surviving the later division of Arkansas into separate judicial districts.
“I am not satisfied that by the division of the district, and the attaching of the place and Indian country where the crinie is charged to have been committed, to the Western district of Arkansas, the jurisdiction of the circuit court over the crime, and the prosecution thereof were divested”
Procedural preferences
He enforced the statutory formalities governing depositions and suppressed testimony when the defects made it inadmissible.
“held, that for either of the objections, the depositions were inadmissible, and ordered the same to be suppressed”
He required a limitations plea to allege adverse possession rather than merely negate the plaintiff’s seizin.
“If a defendant will by special plea avail himself of its provisions, he must distinctly allege and show a disseizin, for otherwise his plea amounts to nothing more than the general issue”
Cautions
A party invoking a tax deed could not rely on the deed alone without showing facts that gave the collector authority to sell.
“a party relying on such deed must in connection therewith, show such facts as in law vested in the collector authority to sell property”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“the prayer of the petition is denied.”
“Dawson applied for bail, but the court on hearing the testimony refused his application.”
“RINGO, District Judge, assenting to these views, held, that for either of the objections, the depositions were inadmissible, and ordered the same to be suppressed, and on the affidavit of the defendant, and it appearing that the depositions were material, continued the cause.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
No case-level docket records are available for this nineteenth-century tenure, so the profile makes no claim about caseload mix or case duration.
A historical record
Judge Ringo no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.