Louis Brandeis, Duncan Townsite Do v. Lane — Opinion of the Court
“ It is a shield by which the purchaser of a legal title may protect himself against the holder of an equity, not a sword by which the owner of an equity may overcome the holder of both the legal title and an equity. ”
Louis Brandeis, Duncan Townsite Do v. Lane — Opinion of the Court
“ The relator having itself only an equity seeks the aid of the court to clothe it with the legal title as against the United States, which now holds both the legal title and the equity to have set aside an allotment certificate secured by fraud. ”
Louis Brandeis, Duncan Townsite Do v. Lane — Opinion of the Court
“ It issues to remedy a wrong, not to promote one; to compel the performance of a duty which ought to be performed, not to direct an act which will work a public or private mischief or will be within the strict letter of the law but in disregard of its spirit. ”
