Mapco, Inc. v. Forrest

How courts have described this case

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• defining void judgment as one rendered when court has no jurisdiction over parties or subject matter, no jurisdiction to render judgment, or no capacity to act as court
• “Judgments are void for lack of power in courts to render them when they are rendered contrary to constitutional or valid statutory prohibition or outside limiting constitutional or statutory authority.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).