Legal Opinion

Dunlap v. Glidden

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided July 1, 1850PublishedCited by 31 opinions

Actions oe the case, each charging, that Dunlap was the just and lawful owner of a lot of land; that said Glidden, however, had sued out a writ of entry for the land against Dunlap, and in that action had obtained a verdict and judgment for the same; that said verdict was obtained by the fraud of Glidden and by false testimony of two of the defendants and of other witnesses, under a conspiracy among all the defendants, by fraud and perjury, to deprive and cheat the plaintiff…

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Actions oe the case, each charging, that Dunlap was the just and lawful owner of a lot of land; that said Glidden, however, had sued out a writ of entry for the land against Dunlap, and in that action had obtained a verdict and judgment for the same; that said verdict was obtained by the fraud of Glidden and by false testimony of two of the defendants and of other witnesses, under a conspiracy among all the defendants, by fraud and perjury, to deprive and cheat the plaintiff of his said land. The defendants protesting, that the fraud and conspiracy are falsely charged, pleaded that the…

1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.

The cause of action in these suits is the same, but the same defendants are not all joined in each of them. The declarations allege in substance, that Benjamin Glidden, jr. commenced an action against the plaintiff to recover several parcels of real estate, thát a verdict was rendered in that action in favor of Glidden, and judgment was entered on the verdict, that all of the defendants fraudulently conspired together to defeat the plaintiff’s title, and to aid Glidden in his *437suit, and that by the false testimony of two of the defendants and others, the verdict was obtained against the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Burt v. PlaceNew York Supreme Court · 1830

3Cited by31 opinions

  1. Miller v. GlanzCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1991
  2. Miller v. GlanzCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1991
  3. Insurance Co. v. BrameSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
  4. Anderson v. AndersonIndiana Court of Appeals · 1979
  5. Nadeau v. StateSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1978

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