Bermudez Asphalt Paving Co. v. Gibson
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit.—Error to the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Edward P. Vail, Judge presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1902.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Waterman
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was an action of assumpsit brought upon a judgment rendered by the United States Circuit Court for the Western District of Missouri.
The defense below was and the grounds urged for a reversal of the judgment of the Circuit Court of this county is an attack upon the validity of the judgment of the said United States Circuit Court. There is no principle of law better settled than, that a collateral attack can not be successfully made upon the judgment of a court of superior and general jurisdiction, where it appears from the…
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