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12 Tex. 1

Henderson v. Morrill

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1854

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1854-07-01

Petitioner represented that he was the rightful owner of a certain tract of land situated on Red River, &c.; that Amos Morrill, on the 6th day of June, A. D., 1853, obtained a judgment in the District Court of Red River county against John C. Carter and Mary A. Carter, for 517 32-100 dollars and costs of suit, and that said land be •sold to satisfy said judgment; that on the 15th day of July, A. D., 1853, an order of sale was issued from the office of the Clerk of the…

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Decided 1854-07-01

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Hemphill, Ch. J.

¶1The appellant obtained an injunction to restrain the Sheriff from selling a tract of land, under a judgment in favor of Amos, Morrill (one of the appellees) against John C. Carter and Mary A. Carter, in which said land was decreed to be sold in satisfaction of said judgment, and under an order of sale, directing the said land to be sold in conformity with said decree.

¶2On demurrer to the petition, the injunction was dissolved, the petition dismissed, and the plaintiff appealed.

¶3The plaintiff avers that he is the rightful owner of the land; but he does not show by what title he claims, or that the Carters had no interest in the land. He alleges no facts to show that the judgment was obtained by fraud and collusion between Morrill and the Carters, and in relation to lands which could not be legally subjected to the satisfaction of such judgment. He does not aver that he is in possession, or that he will suffer any loss or damage by the sale. His right to the land cannot be injuriously affected by a judgment between third parties, or any proceedings to enforce said judgment.

¶4The decree complained of was entered in the exercise of a competent jurisdiction, and cannot be collaterally attacked, „or enjoined, on vague allegations of rights in tjjird parties, and of fraud against those rights ; and especially where these rights cannot be seriously prejudiced, whether the judgment be rendered with or without fraud.

¶5The plaintiff does not aver his ignorance of the pendency *4of the suit, the execution of which he now seeks to enjoin. If he had such knowledge, and had any well founded apprehension of danger to his rights, he should have intervened during the proceedings, and not after the decree.

¶6The whole showing of the plaintiff' is vague and insufficient; and the demurrer was rightly sustained. (3 Tex. E. 152)

¶7Judgment affirmed.

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