The Travelers Indemnity Company v. Jack Gore and the Darien Bank

How courts have described this case

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• holding that perjury does not constitute fraud on the court under Rule 60(d)(3)
• explaining that a plaintiff “cannot use an independent action as a vehicle for the relitigation of issues”
• stating when committed by a judicial officer, fraud upon the court “de- file[s] the court itself,” or results in the court being incapable of re- solving cases in its usual, impartial manner (quotation marks omit- ted)
• allegations of perjury insufficient to obtain relief from judgment through independent action, which cannot be used as vehicle for relitigation of issues
• “[F]or fraud to lay a foundation for an independent action, it must be such that it . . . could [not] have been put in issue by the reasonable diligence of the opposing party.”
• “[F]or fraud to lay a foundation for an independent action, it must be such that it was not in issue in the former action nor could it have been put in issue by the reasonable diligence of the opposing party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).