Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Abbott

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• fraud raised as defense to enforcement of a judgment to which defendant was not a party
• fraud raised as defense to enforcement of a judgment to which defendant was not a party
• independent action may be brought in federal court to challenge state court judgment
• “it is well settled that [a conspiracy between plaintiff and his witnesses to present perjured testimony] constitutes no ground” on which court could deny enforcement of judgment in an independent action
• \it is well settled that [a conspiracy between plaintiff and his witnesses to present perjured testimony] constitutes no ground\ upon which court could deny enforcement of judgment in an independent proceeding
• independent action may be brought in federal court to challenge state court judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).