Hartford-Empire Co. v. Hazel-Atlas Glass Co.

I do not believe that this court lacks the power to remedy an apparent fraud perpetrated on it eleven years ago. On December 29, 1941, we filed a per curiam opinion in the instant cases, 125 F.2d 976, 977, declaring that this court would “ * * * pass upon the question of whether the mandates of this court should be recalled and the cases reopened * * * ”, rather than grant the prayers of the original petitions which were for leave to file bills of review in the district court.

The petitions in their present form are in substance bills for relief against decrees on the ground of fraud. As was…