Sheppard v. Seaboard Air-Line Railway Co.

The defendant in error filed its equitable petition praying for injunction against the levy and enforcement of a fi. fa. issued upon a judgment rendered by a justice’s court in favor of the defendant against the plaintiff. Petitioner based its claim to injunctive relief upon the ground that the judgment had been obtained at a term of the court when its counsel was absent, after having entered into an agreement with counsel for the plaintiff in judgment to continue the case, and that the trial of the case which resulted in the judgment in the justice’s court was in violation of the terms of…