Brown v. Bowman

The remedy by affidavit of illegality can be employed to go behind and attack a judgment only when it is shown that the judgment is absolutely void, in that the court rendering it was without jurisdiction so to do, or that the defendant has not had his day in court. McConnell v. Mason, 30 Ga. App. 82 (116 S. E. 658). In the instant case it is not disputed that a court of competent jurisdiction entered its decree vesting in the affiant’s intestate title to the land levied upon, subject to the lien of the execution sought to be enforced, nor is it disputed that the affiant’s intestate was…