Transworld Financial Services Corp. v. Briscoe

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “allegations of attorney negligence is not a sufficient ground to support a bill of review,” and that the litigant’s attorney is not included in the context of an “official” in a bill of review
• holding that “allegations of attorney negligence is not a sufficient ground to support a bill of review,” and that the litigant’s attorney is not included in the context of an “official” in a bill of review
• holding that bill of review petitioner seeking relief from an adverse judgment resulting from the wrongful acts or his or her own counsel is not excused from pleading and proving extrinsic fraud by his or her opponent
• holding a bill of review plaintiff must have been prevented from making his defense by the fraud of the person against whom the bill of review is brought
• \The grounds upon which a bill of review can be obtained are narrow because the procedure conflicts with the fundamental policy that judgments must become final at some point.\
• “The grounds upon which a bill of review can be obtained are narrow because the procedure conflicts with the fundamental policy that judgments must become final at some point.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).