Case Name: Samuel Dotson vs. W. P. Douglas, Sheriff
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1885
Citations: 1 Gunby 57
Docket Number: 
Parties: Samuel Dotson vs. W. P. Douglas, Sheriff.
Judges: 
Reporter: Legal points decided by the Second circuit court of Louisiana (Gunby's Reports)
Volume: 1
Pages: 57–58

Head Matter:
Samuel Dotson vs. W. P. Douglas, Sheriff.

Opinion:
Mayo, J.
The instances stated in C. P. 607 of the grounds on wdiich a judgment may be annulled, are illustrative and do not exclude others; the general rule is, that a judgment will be annulled wherever it would be against good conscience to maintain it, and it is shown that, unless it is annulled, the party complaining will suffer a real injury, without fault or laches on his part. 1 R. 523; 3 An. 646; 31 An. 287.
2. Where a confession of judgment was obtained on a note, which defendant was fraudulently induced to give by misrepresentations and miscalculations of accounts, and it is clearly showm that the note was totally without consideration, the judgment will be annulled, although the action to . annul was not brought for several months after the judgment debtor discovered the fraud. Illiterate negroes are credulous, confiding and easily overreached in business transactions, and delay, which would be negligence in others, will be excused in them.