Payne v. Payne

The bill of complaint in this case was filed by the appellant in the Circuit Court of Baltimore City on the loth of January, 1903, to set aside for fraud a final decree which had been passed by that Court in another case on the 28th of February, 1896. The appellees demurred to the bill for want of equity in its allegations and for laches in filing it; and the present appeal is from the decree of the Circuit Court sustaining the demurrer and dismissing the bill.

The decree passed in 1896, which the appellant now asks to have set aside, ratified a sale to his brother and partner, E. Scott Payne,…