Devero v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

The controlling questions in the separate main bills of exceptions by a wife and her husband from separate judgments dismissing their separate petitions on general and special demurrers being identical, the cases are determined together. In the case of the wife the cross-bill of exceptions of the defendant is first determined, since it presents a question which might be wholly decisive of the case. The rule recognized in a previous adjudication in that case, that a judgment rendered in vacation, sustaining a demurrer without the passing of any order in term time setting the hearing, is void…