Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1861

Boston & Worcester Railroad v. Sparhawk

Boston & Worcester Railroad v. Sparhawk
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided January 15, 1861
83 Mass. 448
Boston & Worcester Railroad v. Sparhawk

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

A party to a judgment cannot be permitted in equity, any more than at law, collaterally to impeach it on the ground of mistake or fraud, when it is offered in evidence against him in support of the title which was in issue in the cause in which it was recovered.

Injunction made perpetual.

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