DocketNumber: No. 17170
Citation Numbers: 207 Ga. 131
Judges: Head
Filed Date: 7/11/1950
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 1/12/2023
The defendant in error relied in the trial court upon the Code, § 110-511, which provides that a purchaser in good faith and for a valuable consideration shall be relieved of the lien' of any judgment against the seller after the purchaser
The record fails to disclose the nature of the partitioning proceeding upon which the claimant relied for title. This, however, is immaterial. If the partitioning was in equity, the decree of the court passed the title, whether or not conveyances were executed by the parties. Code, § 85-1503. If the partitioning was statutory, the judgment of the court was final and conclusive as to all parties who, were notified of the application for partition. § 85-1510. Parties not notified, or absent from the State, or laboring under any disability recognized by law, had twelve months in which to move to set aside the judgment upon any ground which might have been urged by such parties upon the hearing for partition. § 85-1515.
The judgment of partitioning was final and conclusive as to all matters put in issue, or which might have been put in issue in the cause wherein the judgment was rendered, until reversed or set aside. Code, § 110-501. A judgment of the superior court, apparently regular and legal (after the time for excepting thereto has expired), can only be set aside in a proper proceeding for that purpose in the court wherein the judgment was rendered. Schulze v. Schulze, 149 Ga. 532 (101 S. E. 183). A judgment making the return of partitioners the judgment of the court can not be collaterally attacked. King v. Dillon, 66 Ga. 131. “All proceedings of every kind in any court of this State to set aside judgments or decrees of the courts, shall be made within three years from the rendering of said judgments or decrees.” Code, § 3-702.
The claimant having acquired title in a partitioning proceeding prior to the rendition of the judgment which the plaintiff in error seeks to enforce, and more than eight years prior to the levy of the execution, and the judgment of partitioning not
Judgment affirmed.