Walsh v. Walsh
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill of review, filed October 6, 1874, in behalf of William Walsh and Bridget Walsh, infants, and heirs at law and devisees of Richard Walsh, against Richard J. Walsh, Ellen E. Walsh and Thomas Keyes, to reverse a decree of this court, rendered January 1, 1873, in a suit in equity in which.
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Bill of review, filed October 6, 1874, in behalf of William Walsh and Bridget Walsh, infants, and heirs at law and devisees of Richard Walsh, against Richard J. Walsh, Ellen E. Walsh and Thomas Keyes, to reverse a decree of this court, rendered January 1, 1873, in a suit in equity in which. Ellen Donovan waa the plaintiff; and the plaintiffs in review, and Richard J. Walsh, Ellen E. Walsh, both heirs at law of Richard Walsh, Margaret E. Walsh, his widow, and Thomas Keyes, special administrator of the estate of Richard Walsh, were defendants. The bill of review set forth that the bill in…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
This bill of review assigns three errors in the decrees in the original suit: 1st. That two of the defendants were infants, and that decrees were made against them without giving them a day after their coming of age to show cause against the same. 2d. That the decrees appear to have been made by consent of them guardian ad litem, and upon the representation of counsel*, without proof. 3d. That the original plaintiff had no title which she could convey to those who were admitted to prosecute in her place. We are of opinion that the bill of review cannot be maintained upon either of the grounds…
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