Merchants Mortgage & Trust Corp. v. Jenkins

How courts have described this case

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• “Because the judgment is void, the plaintiffs argument that the judgment should not be reversed because of no prejudicial effect on the parties is inapposite”
• judge resigned as district judge after being appointed to the court of appeals
• no judicial authority for former district court judge to render decision on case after he was appointed to court of appeals where neither supreme court nor chief justice had authorized such action; orders entered after he ceased to be a district court judge are void
• a void judgment “must be vacated”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).