Dyche v. Patton

Pearson J.

It is attempted by the bill to raise this question : Will a Court of Equity interfere and require the parties to set aside a judgment and verdict at law, and try the matter de novo, upon the allegation that the verdict was obtained by the testimony of a witness, which was known to be false by the party using it, and which the opposite part3r had no means of contradicting at the trial, or in time to support a rule for a new trial; without an allegation, that the false witness has been presented for perjury or has absconded so as not to be answerable to the process of the law ?

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