Gelin v. Hollister

The provisions of L. 1941, c. 448, left but two possible remedies for judicial error as against the orders and judgments to which the statute applied. One was an appeal to this court; the other was, of course, a motion to vacate or modify the order or judgment presented to the trial court within the time for appeal. Obviously, it was the legislative purpose so to limit the time and to immunize such order and judgments from attack thereafter for judicial error in order to expedite the administration of justice in this class of cases. The legislature had the undoubted right so to legislate. It…