Legal Opinion

Williams v. Cheatham

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided August 10, 1896PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Equitable petition. Before Judge Reese. Madison superior court. September term, 1895.

1Opinion of the CourtSimmons, C. J.

It appearing from the allegations of the plaintiff’s petition as amended that the various matters of which she therein complains against the defendant had been adjudicated against her by a consent judgment rendered in “an equity proceeding” to which both of them were parties, and the declaration not making it, for any reason therein alleged, apparent that this judgment was void, and neither it nor any of the pleadings upon which it was founded being set forth, and all the presumptions of law being in favor of its validity, the petition set forth no cause of action, and the court erred in…

2Cited by6 opinions

  1. Crowson v. CodySupreme Court of Alabama · 1926
  2. Keown v. HughesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1920
  3. Keen v. BrownSupreme Court of Florida · 1903
  4. Hammond v. ThorntonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1899
  5. Hewitt v. Great Western Beet Sugar Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1916

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