Hintz v. Moldenhauer

In March, 1890, the defendant Mary Granpner, nee Moldenhauer, recovered a judgment for $2,000 in an action for slander against complainant’s intestate, John Hintz. This judgment was affirmed by the Supreme Court in June, 1891. (Hintz v. Graupner, 138 Ill. 158.) Twenty years thereafter, in June, 1911, the bill in this case was filed by John Hintz, in the nature of a bill of review, seeldng to' have the judgment against him set aside upon the ground of newly-discovered evidence tending to show that certain testimony given in the slander suit was perjured and that the perjury was known to the…