Reed v. Wangler

Currier, Judge,

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.

Tbe plaintiff seeks to set aside a judgment of tbe Gasconade Circuit Court upon tbe ground that its rendition was irregular. He avers that the judgment was rendered against him within one year next following his discharge from the military service of the United States. ’It is therefore claimed that under the legislative acts of May 15,1861, and of March 17,1863 (Sess. Acts 1861, p. 46; Sess. Acts 1863, p. 30), the judgment was unwarranted, and that it ought, consequently, to be annulled.

The acts referred to have been construed not as…