23 Vt. 573 | Vt. | 1851
The opinion of the court was delivered by
This is an audita querela, to set aside the judgment of a justice of the peace, rendered in an action of slander. The only good ground, which occurs to us, why it could be fairly urged, that this remedy ought not to be extended to such a case, is, that, the judgment being void upon the face of it, there is no necessity for a resort to any such remedy.
This point, in principle, was decided in the case of Hastings v. Webber, 2 Vt. 407, which was an action of covenant broken before a justice, and judgment for the plaintiff, and this court held the party might well sue his audita querela. That case must be regarded as a full authority for the present.
Judgment affirmed.