Independence County v. Independence County Bridge District No. 1

In my opinion, the judgment is void on every ground stated by counsel for appellant, and I respectfully dissent.

In the first place, the judgment was not final but was contingent upon an event which might never happen. That it has happened does not render the judgment valid, for that must be determined from the language of the judgment itself. It is for no definite amount but for a yearly fixed sum for an indefinite and uncertain period: “It is therefore ordered, etc., * * * that said appropriation be, and the same is hereby, made perpetual.”

Judgments must be certain. Their validity and…