Supreme Court of Georgia August 24, 1896 (Pass v. Pass)

Simmons, Chief Justice.

Whether a judgment can be attacked collaterally by a party thereto as void because of fraud in its procurement, is a question upon which courts have differed. (See Van Fleet on Collateral Attack, §550 et seq.; Black, Judgments, §§290, 170; Freeman, Judgments (ed. 1892), §336; Stephen, Dig. Evidence, Art. 40; Taylor, Evidence, §1713; Wharton, Evidence, §797.