Porter v. Hammitt

Plaintiffs in error brought this action on a Kansas judgment and were defeated on the ground that said judgment was obtained by fraud.

They now claim that such a judgment can be attacked collaterally for want of jurisdiction only and not for fraud. It has been so held. Hanley v. Donoghue, 116 U. S. 1, 6 Sup. Ct. 242, 29 L. Ed. 535; Thompson v. Whitman, 18 Wall. 457, 21 L. Ed. 897; Christmas v. Russell, 5 Wall. 290, 305, 18 L. Ed. 475. Though there are decisions to the contrary we are inclined to think the claim is right. Be that as it may, however, neither lack of jurisdiction nor fraud is…