Roberts v. Caldwell

This is an action of debt on a judgment of Tennessee; and the declaration being good, and the record from Tennessee substantially corresponding with and sustaining it—the only question to be considered, is whether the Circuit Court erred in sustaining a demurrer to a plea denying that the defendant had either appeared, or been cited to appear, to the suit in which the judgment now sued on was rendered.

If there was no such notice or appearance, the judgment should here be deemed void for want of jurisdiction in the Court that rendered it. But, as the record recites that “ the parties appeared…