Gregory v. Citizens National Bank

While a justice’s court, as well as all other courts, may disregard and ignore any judgment that is absolutely void, and may treat it as a nullity whenever and wherever it comes into question or is sought to be enforced, neither a justice of the peace nor the court over which he presides has authority to entertain a proceeding to set aside a verdict or judgment rendered in such court, and there is no jurisdiction in either to pass upon a petition having for its sole purpose the obtaining of a judgment declaring a former judgment of the justice’s court to be null and void. Dalton City Co. v.…