Pendergrass v. Jackson

*26This is a suit, by a bill of review, exhibited by the appellants, to be relieved from a decree of the court of appeals pronounced whilst it had original jurisdiction. The bill alleges as grounds for the application, several errors in law apparent in the decree, •and several facts discovered since the decree was made; and on the dismissal of the bill, on demurrer, by the district court, this appeal was taken.

All human tribunals are liable to err, and errors in law being most frequently committed and most easily detected, some rational mode for correcting them is provided by well-regulated…