Outlaw v. Noland

EVANS, Justice.

Appellant, Jesse Outlaw, brought this action in the nature of a bill of review to set aside a summary judgment entered against him in a trespass to try title action. Outlaw alleged that he had meritorious cause of action in the first suit; that severe illness had prevented him from being present in court at the time the summary judgment was entered against him; that he was without fault or negligence, and that the prior judgment was fundamentally erroneous and void in that it affirmatively decreed the defendant recover title and possession of the property in suit when no…