Majure v. Johnson

This appeal is from a decree dismissing a bill of review for error apparent on the face of the record, seeking to set aside as invalid a decree pro confesso and a final decree thereon taken in the former suit, in which the Johnsons (man and wife) were complainants and Majure was defendant.

The decrees were taken upon a second amended bill. It is contended in the present bill that those decrees are invalid because (1) leave of court had not been obtained for filing the bills subsequent to the original, (2) that Majure had on file when the decrees were taken an answer which effectually denied…