Donnelly v. Congdon

After the executor paid to the petitioner the $750 which was awarded by a judgment of the Supreme Court, as a condition of validating a conveyance which the executor had given, he cannot, by discovery proceedings in Surrogate’s Court, get back the money he had so paid as a condition of the advantage secured to him by the Supreme Court judgment. The Supreme Court had jurisdiction of the parties to, and the subject-matter of, the con*596troversy, and neither the Surrogate’s Court nor any one by resorting to Surrogate’s Court, can attack the validity of the Supreme Court judgment. If any court acted…