Chute v. Wisconsin Chemical Co.

QUARLES, District Judge (after stating the facts as above).

This application is based upon a familiar equitable maxim, that “he who enters a court of equity must come with clean hands.” The first question presented is whether this maxim is available, under the facts stated, to close the door of the court to the complainant.

Equity is supposed to guard the portals of her jurisdiction jealously. No cause of action will be proceeded with which has become infected with fraud or other iniquity, it matters not when or how the facts are brought to the attention of the court. The distinction is,…