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transaction into which it enters applies to <br />judgments as well as to contracts and other <br />transactions. "); Allen F. Moore v. Stanley F. <br />Sievers, 336 Ill . 316; 168 N.E. 259 (1929) ( "The <br />maxim that fraud vitiates every transaction into <br />which it enters ... "); In re Village of <br />Willowbrook, 37 Ill.App.2d 393 (1962) ( "It is <br />axiomatic that fraud vitiates everything. "); <br />Dunham V. Dunham, 57 Ill.App. 475 (1894), <br />affirmed 162 Ill. 589 (1896); Skelly Oil Co. v. <br />Universal Oil Products Co., 338 Ill.App. 79, 86 <br />N.E.2d 875, 883 -4 (1949); Thomas Stasel v. The <br />American Home Security Corporation, 362 Ill. 350; <br />199 N.E. 798 (1935). When any officer of the <br />court has committed "fraud upon the court ", the <br />orders and judgment of that court are void, of no <br />legal force or effect. A court may at any time <br />set aside a judgment for after discovered fraud <br />upon the court. Hazel -Atlas Glass v. Hartford, 322 <br />US 238, 64 S. Ct. 997, 88 L. Ed. 1250 - Supreme <br />Court, 1944. Out of deference to the deep rooted <br />policy in favor of the repose of judgments... <br />courts of equity have been cautious in exercising <br />their power din upsetting judgments]. But when <br />