Owens v. Ranstead

The power of a court of chancery to afford relief, in a case like this, properly made out, cannot be questioned, but it must appear to the court that the party complaining has been guilty of no laches on his part, and that he has been deprived of the opportunity of asserting his rights or making his defense through some accident, fraud or mistake, not of his own procurement, and, to which he was not a willing party, for a party has no claim to come into a court of equity to ask to be saved from his own culpable misconduct.

It is well settled, as a general rule, that equity will not relieve…