Leavitt v. Benzing

In Eastman v. Barnes, 62 N. H. 630, 631, an appeal from a decree accepting a report of a committee of partition, it was stated that to justify reversal of such a decree “it is not sufficient to allege that the committee erred in their finding of facts so that the division made by them is unequal or unjust, or unsuitable or inconvenient: fraud or its equivalent must be charged. Doughty v. Little, 61 N. H. 365, 368, 369. Their proceedings, being regular, cannot be set aside unless they ‘were influenced by passion, prejudice, partiality, or corruption, or unwittingly fell into a plain mistake.’…