Laflin v. Drake

Heretofore we have accorded some degree of finality to foreclosure proceedings in Improvement District cases; and we have also accorded some degree of finality to orders confirming the sales and approving the deeds in such cases. The holding in the present case does much to destroy all such ideas of finality.

A lengthy dissent might be written, discussing the line of demarcation between a collateral attack and a direct attack on a judgment, and also showing that the present suit is a collateral attack by all the tests stated in all the cases. A lengthy dissent might also he written listing our…