Bryan v. BRYAN

Oxner, Justice.

This is a suit in equity to set aside a judgment at law on the ground that it was obtained through fraud. It is here on an appeal from an order overruling a demurrer to the complaint.

In June, 1948, Elizabeth J. Bryan, Harry O. Lifrage and Vivian B. Lifrage brought an action against J. G. Bryan for the recovery of damages on account of the loss of their tenants and sharecroppers. It was alleged that the defendant threatened the colored tenants and sharecroppers on plaintiffs’ farms with violence if they continued to use certain roads which were the sole means of ingress and…