Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance v. Clark
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. The facts are stated in the opinion. The Circuit 'Court and this court are not deprived of jurisdiction to entertain plaintiff’s bill by the provision in the.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. The facts are stated in the opinion. The Circuit 'Court and this court are not deprived of jurisdiction to entertain plaintiff’s bill by the provision in the. Seventh Amendment that no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined by any court of the United States than according to the rules of the common law, as under the common law, as it was understood in England at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, equity could examine into whether a judgment, based on a verdict, had been fraudulently…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is a bill in equity, brought in. the Circuit Court to enjoin the setting up of a judgment at Taw recovered in the same Circuit Court upon three policies of life insurance, on the ground that the judgment was obtained by fraud. It also .seeks to compel the plaintiff in the action at law, and other parties' to whom interests in the policies were assigned, to repay the sums which they received upon them. The -judgment was rendered in a case which came before this court, and the dramatic circumstances of the alleged death are set forth in the report. Fidelity Mutual Life Association v.…
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