Archer v. Lawson

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Miller

"Reversing.

In these two actions in equity "by the appellants, Archer and Angel respectively, against the county attorney and the other county officers for an injunction to prevent the enforcement of judgments for fines, the circuit court sustained demurrers to the petitions and dismissed them. The plaintiffs appeal.

The petitions allege that the judgments for the fines were void because the court which rendered them was without jurisdiction.

The prosecutions were started on January 5th, 1915, by B. A. Peace, a justice of the peace, issuing separate…