Twigg v. Hopkins

William Hopkins and Thomas Hopkins, doing business .as Hopkins & Son, obtained a judgment by default against Robert Twigg. In due course the judgment was made ■final and the damages were assessed at three hundred and sixty-five dollars. Twigg filed a bill in equity against the plaintiffs in the suit at law and obtained' a preliminary injunction restraining the collection of the judgment. It was alleged that Twigg was prevented from making a successful defence to the law suit by the fraudulent conduct of the *302elder Hopkins in promising to dismiss it. At the hearing in the Court below it…