Fornell v. Fornell Equipment, Inc.

The Case

This action seeks to set aside a consent judgment entered in circuit court. The consent judgment, an amendment thereto, and the stipulation upon which the judgment was based, are set out in full as an appendix to this opinion.

The Facts

The facts are well distilled in the opinion of the Court of Appeals. They are repeated here in the language of the opinion below. However, in four important places, we have used italics to emphasize certain statements by the Court of Appeals. They will be discussed later.

"Plaintiff Bertil S. Fornell initiated litigation on May 19, 1965, in Wayne County…