St. John v. Campbell

BROWN, Justice.

The appellants filed an original bill in the nature of a bill of review to set aside and vacate a decree of the same court— a court of equity — in which the bill was filed on the ground that it was procured through fraud, accident or mistake without negligence on the part of the complainant, alleging in their bill that they had a meritorious defense, which they were prevented from making because of the failure of service of process on them or other notice as to the pendency of said suit.

The substance of the averments of the bill is that the complainants had executed certain…