Wilson v. Hawthorne

From the abstract of record iu this case it appears that the action was begun by appellee as plaintiff in the county court in 1885 to recover the balance due upon a certain other judgment rendered in his favor in the same court in 1878. To the complaint appellants, as defendants, filed an answer containing certain denials, and also a further equitable defense or cross-complaint verified.

The cross-com plaint is in the nature of a bill in equity to impeach a judgment for want of jurisdiction.' Its allegations are affirmative both in form and substance. They are to the effect that the judgment…