Weeks v. the Arkansas Club

The question here is not whether any injustice has been done by permitting the landowner in the instant case to redeem his land upon returning the tax purchaser’s money. If no other question were involved, we might all say, “Well done.” But we have done much more. We have rendered the solemn judgments of courts less stable. No one may know when judgments have become final and are not open to collateral attack. It is conceded, of course, that the instant case is a collateral attack upon the decree foreclosing the tax lien.

The decree in the foreclosure case, rendered June 22, 1936, contains the…