New York Life Insurance v. Gilmore

1. A judgment of a court of record, although rendered in a matter in which the court has jurisdiction, can not be “relied on as an estoppel, or as establishing any particular state of facts of which it was the judicial result,” except by proof of the proceedings on which the *432judgment was rendered. Gibson v. Robinson, 90 Ga. 756 (16 S. E. 969, 35 Am. St. R. 250). This is clearly distinguishable from cases such as Sharpe v. Hodges, 121 Ga. 798 (49 S. E. 775), where it was held, in effect, that a judgment can not be collaterally attacked by evidence tending to impeach the record upon which the…