Hill v. Hill

The plaintiff sought an injunction prohibiting the defendants from making any use in the courts of this state, and particularly in certain proceedings pending in the Probate Court for the district of Darien, of a decree of a Surrogate Court in New York giving her son in adoption, and, if necessary, a declaratory judgment as to the validity of the adoption proceedings. The defendants named in the writ are two brothers and a sister of the plaintiff and Charles A. Mulligan, Jr., the husband of the sister. The trial court found that the decree of the New York court had been procured by fraud…