Hawkins v. Federal Land Bank

The case seems to have been tried in the court below upon the theory that the sole question involved was whether the judgment of foreclosure could be set aside because of fraud practiced by the present defendant in its procurement, and the judgment of the court seems to be based upon the principle that the fraud complained of, if it existed at all, was intrinsic and that therefore relief against the judgment of foreclosure could be had only by a motion in the cause rather than an independent action. Considered from the point of sufficiency in the pleading, fraud cannot be inferred from the…