144 F. 828 | 9th Cir. | 1906
after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court.
The bill presents the question whether a Circuit Court of the United States can revise or set aside a final decree rendered by a state court which had jurisdiction of the parties and of the subject-matter of the suit, upon the ground- that the decree was obtained by fraud, when the injured party "has had an opportunity to apply to the state court to revise the decree. This question has been determined adversely to
The additional averment that the appellants did not discover until November, 1898, that J. M. Griffith was the owner of the goods and a party to the conspiracy to defraud them from its inception does not appear to us to present matter which strengthens or is essential to the appellants’ case. But, if we are wrong in this, there can be no doubt that it is matter that should have been presented to the superior court upon its discovery by the appellants a few months after the final decree of that court, and that it cannot he the basis of relief in this court presented as it is by a hill filed herein more than five years after the date of that decree. There is no equitable ground on which the bill can be sustained.
The decree of the Circuit Court is affirmed.