Stephen Johnson Field

“ A suit in equity will not lie to give effect to defences against a claim when they might have been fully set up in an action at law. There must have been some fraud practised upon the court or some unconscientions advantage taken of the defendant without any fault or negligence on his part; or there must be some newly discovered evidence which could not have been obtained at the trial, and which, if produced, would have changed the result, before a court of equity will interfere with the judgment rendered or the contract upon which it was recovered. ”

“ Instead of such proofs there is nothing of importance established which is not consistent with the integrity o a ll the parties,-insured, wife, and son. The main and essential fact averred in the company's case is the contemplated suicide of the insured. The evidence to establish this-and it is stronger than the evidence produced upon any other material averment-is that he had inquired for insurance companies whose policies did not except death by suicide ”