McCreery v. Fortson
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Navarro. Tried below before the Hon. P. P. Wood. The opinion of the court states the material facts. The brief for the appellant bears no signature of the counsel who filed it.
1Opinion of the CourtOgden, J.
The general rule of law that the judgments of a court of competent jurisdiction cannot be collaterally impeached has been too long and thoroughly settled upon principle and authority to be now called in question. And this rule, when properly applied, will most definitely decide and determine all the many apparently complicated questions presented in the record of this cause.
In 1851, Daniel Cadwell sold to B. J. Fortson the land involved in this suit, and in 1857 he obtained a judgment in the district court for the balance of the purchase money due him, and a decree foreclosing the vendor’s…
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