State ex rel. McConihe v. Steiner

Citations

• 58 Wash. 578
• 109 P. 57
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 971

Syllabus

<p>Judgments—Vacation—Courts—Terms. Under the Washington practice, the superior courts having no ¡terms, their judgments have no probationary period in which they are subject to the control of the courts, except under the statutory right to vacation or modification.</p> <p>Judgments—Vacation—Persons Entitled. The superior court has no power, on its own motion or at the instance of a stranger appearing as amicus curiae, to vacate a judgment for fraud and collusion, there having been no real controversy between the parties.</p> <p>Judgments—Conolusiveness—Parties Bound. Judgments fix-* ing the rights of the parties to the action in the waters of a lake, although general in form, are binding only upon the parties and their privies.</p>