Samuel Blatchford

“ There is one difference between them. The applicant for relief in this case comes into court an adjudged trespasser and wrongdoer, asking for relief from the legal effects of his own willfully illegal act. In speaking of the complainant as a trespasser and wrong-doer I am sustained by the statement in the bill itself to the effect that, while the action of forcible entry and detainer was pending, the complainant bought the property of which the appellant was dispossessed, took possession thereof, and became a maintainer of the defendant in the suit, and was itself made a party to said suit. ”

“ The bill alleges no fact or circumstance which has occurred since the rendition of the judgment by the district court and this court which would make its execution against conscience. The only equity it assumes to set up is the irreparable damage and injury which it alleges would be caused to the railroad company by reason of its being a common carrier and a United States mail carrier over the railroad in question, whose duties it would be unable to perform if not allowed to retain possession and use of said railroad. ”

“ The written agreement of October 6, 1881, is full and complete, and its terms cannot be varied, qualified, or contradicted by showing, as is sought to be done, a contemporaneous verbal understanding that the $25,000 mentioned in the agreement was to be paid in cash in a limited time, or satisfactory securities delivered in a limited time, or the written contract was to be void. ”