DocketNumber: No. 16,827
Citation Numbers: 93 Neb. 40
Judges: Barnes, Fawcett
Filed Date: 1/31/1913
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 7/20/2022
The plaintiff in this action, after she became 21 years
The appellant contends that the district court erred in holding, that the action was seasonably commenced, and awarding the plaintiff a new trial. This action was brought under section 602 of the code, which provides: “A district court shall have power to vacate or modify its own judgments or orders, after the term at which such judgment or order was made, * * * by granting a neAv trial. * * * Fourth. For fraud practiced by the successful party in obtaining the judgment or order. Fifth. For erroneous proceedings against an infant, or person of unsound mind, where the condition of such defendant does not appear in the record, nor the error in the proceedings.” Section 609 of the code provides: “Proceedings to vacate or modify a judgment or order, for the causes mentioned in subdivisions 4, 5, and 7 of section 602, must be commenced within two years after the judgment was rendered or order made, unless the party entitled thereto be an infant, 'or person of unsound mind, and then within two years after removal of such disability.” By section 5371, Ann. St. 1911, it is provided: “All male children under twenty-one and all females under eighteen years of age are declared to be minors; but, in case a female marries between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, her minority ends.”
In view of the rule announced in Sutphen v. Joslyn, supra, where it was held that there was neither actual nor constructive fraud in the action in which the decree of July 10, 1893, was rendered, and that the decree was binding upon the minors as well as the adult defendants therein, we are of opinion that the plaintiff could not maintain this action. The judgment of the district court is therefore reversed, and the plaintiff’s action is dismissed.
Reversed and dismissed.