77 Ga. 483 | Ga. | 1886
' The question made by this record is, whether the superior court of Richmond county had jurisdiction of a motion to annul, set aside and declare void an order passed by it
The position assumed and insisted upon by the experienced and learned counsel for plaintiffs in error is this, that the circuit court of the United States is a court of limited jurisdiction; that it can take no cognizance of causes other than those which it is authorized by the constitution and laws of the United States to hear and determine; and that where it assumed to act under a statute of the United States, which had been repealed when it decided the case; it had no jurisdiction of the subject-matter and the parties, and the decision rendered was coram nonjudice and void, and being void, might be assáiled and disregarded whenever and wherever it interfered with the rights of a party litigant in any court.
No one will question that the United States courts are courts of limited jurisdiction., and if they act outside of their jurisdiction, such action is void; if, therefore, the premises of counsel for plaintiffs in error be correct, their conclusion would be inevitable; we do not agree, however,
Judgment affirmed.