Wiley v. Southerland

This was a bill in chancery brought by Southerland against Wiley, to enjoin the collection of a judgment rendered against the former on a garnishee process issued at the suit of Wiley, before a justice of the peace. On the hearing below, the injunction was made perpetual.

The ground upon which it is sought to sustain the injunction is, that the judgment, although purporting on its face to have been rendered on the same day that Southerland answered the garnishee process, was not in fact entered until long afterward, whereby Southerland lost his opportunity of appeal, and when it was in fact…