Plumbers Woodwork Co. v. Merchants Credit & Adjustment Bureau

The following opinion was filed June 24, 1929:

Owen, J.

No question is raised concerning the validity of the garnishee judgment. The commencement of this action in equity must be construed as a concession that the time has expired within which the court is authorized to relieve a party from a judgment “through his mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect,” under the provisions of sec. 269.46, Stats. The question to be considered, therefore, is whether under the circumstances here presented a court of equity may or should enjoin the enforcement of this judgment.

The judgment was…