Perdew v. Davis

Citations

• 31 Tex. 488

Syllabus

<p>In a divorce suit the service was by publication. The return of the sheriff did not show that the citation was published four successive weeks. But the court took jurisdiction, tried the case, granted the divorce, and rendered a judgment for costs. On this judgment the land in controversy was sold, and the defendant derived that title. Six years afterwards the court allowed the sheriff to amend his return, and five years later the court dismissed the divorce suit: Held, that the divorce judgment was void, and the sheriff’s sale gave no title.</p>