Scott v. Stewart

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Vanderbilt, C. J.

This cause first came before us several months ago, the appellants then seeking to reverse a decree of the former Court of Chancery setting aside an earlier decree of that court as having been procured by fraud. We agreed with the learned Vice-Chancellor that the earlier decree should be set aside, but, taking advantage of the new rules, we gave directions designed to work out complete justice between the parties in the single suit. What under the former practice would have necessitated a suit by the defendants here to have the…