In re Jacobson's Will’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “* * * * * * “It is also the settled law that the decision of a court not having jurisdiction, being void, may be attacked in any proceeding in which a person seeks to assert a right under such pretended adjudication; it may be attacked in any suit in which its validity is drawn in question.” * * * * * * “ . . . there was evidence, negative in its nature, but based upon the records, or rather lack of records, sufficient to warrant the trial judge in finding as a fact, and we must presume he did find, that no petition was ever filed. Such evidence was competent and was properly received.” [Emphasis supplied] * * * * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 265 So. 2d 524 - Kant v. Kant