Combs v. Cardwell

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Nunn

Affirming.

This appeal is taken from a judgment of the lower court refusing appellants permission to intervene and file answers in garnishment proceedings which had gone to judgment at a former term. The answers tendered by appellants did not set up any of the grounds enumerated in Section 518 of the code, whereby a judgment may be vacated or modified after the expiration of the term at which it was rendered.

The controversy arises from the following facts: In 1894, the appellee, Cardwell, recovered a judgment against Breck Combs, one of the appellants. Some…