11 Tex. 617 | Tex. | 1854
The petition for certiorari was manifestly Insufficient, and should have been dismissed on motion. There
The proceedings subsequent to the judgment, by which its legal effect was sought to be avoided, were manifestly irregular and illegal. The successor in office of the Justice had no authority to revise the action of his predecessor. Nor could the claimant of the property, levied on by virtue of the execution, institute an inquiry into the merits of the judgment, with the view to set it aside, in that collaterial proceeding. The merits of the judgment could not be thus drawn in question. Nor does the petition for a certiorari disclose any right in either the defendant in the judgment, or the claimant, to have a revision of the judgment, or an inquiry into its merits.
The judgment is reversed, and the petition for certiorari and the proceedings thereon dismissed.
Beversed and dismissed.