Penton v. Brown-Crummer Inv. Co.

"In this state it is settled that any attempt to impeach and annul a judgment other than by a direct appeal, or by a direct proceeding in the court that rendered the judgment, before the expiration of the term at which it was rendered, is a collateral attack. Friedman v. Shamblin, 117 Ala. 454, 466,23 So. 821." Johnson v. Johnson, 182 Ala. 376, 385, 62 So. 706,709; Berry v. Manning, 209 Ala. 587, 96 So. 762; State v. Realty Loan Co., 209 Ala. 559, 562, 96 So. 613; Stovall v. Jasper, 218 Ala. 282, 118 So. 467. "This, of course, does not deny the well-settled jurisdiction of equity to review…