Cooke v. Burnham

Texas Supreme Court
Cooke v. Burnham, 32 Tex. 129 (Tex. 1869)
Morrill

Cooke v. Burnham

Opinion of the Court

Morrill, C. J.

Appellant sued out an injunction restraining the defendant from proceeding to enforce a judgment obtained before a justice of the peace. The petition discloses that the seiwice was had by publication in a neAvspaper fourteen days only previous to the judgment; and charges the same to be avoid. The ansAver does not deny the charge, but seeks to set up in avoidance that the plaintiff knew that the judgment had been rendered, and did not seek to restrain it within a given limit, etc. The court dismissed the injunction, from Avhieh plaintiff appealed. We conceive the court erred. Taking the facts alleged as true, the judgment Avas void, and the injunction should be perpetuated.

Eeversed and remanded.

Reference

Full Case Name
W. B. Cooke v. A. M. Burnham
Cited By
7 cases
Status
Published
Syllabus
1— It was error to dissolve an injunction restraining the execution of a void judgment, though sued out more than twelve months after the rendition of the judgment—the statute requiring injunctions to judgments to he sued out within twelve months, having no application when the pretended judgment is a nullity. 2— ITor is it material that the plaintiff in the injunction had actual notice of the void judgment within twelve months after its date.