Judge Bean comes to the aid of the Peralta family as unscrupulous real estate agents try to force them off their land. They've learned that a railroad will need the property and they intend to make an undeserved profit.
The townspeople are angry when a local rancher is in jail accused of stealing horses, and the judge tries to keep things calm so they don't turn into a lynch mob.
Pretty Connie Ward comes to town but the reasons why are a mystery. But when two villainous men harass Letty about her whereabouts the Judge and Taggart look into why. A missing cache of stolen money may tie things together.
Judge Bean appoints himself as the legal guardian of a young man whose father was a member of an outlaw gang. Bean's reward -- the boy's uncle puts a $3000 bounty on his head !