Case ID: ohio-cc-ns_11/html/0383-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

FRAUD IN OBTAINING JUDGMENT AGAINST A WIFE.
    Circuit Court of Stark County.
    Ulman, Einstein & Co. v. Effinger. 
    
    
      Judgment — Fraud in Obtaining, Against a Wife — Sufficient Averment of Fraud — May be Set Aside, Notwithstanding There was Service of Summons, but no Defense was Interposed.
    
    
      N. J. and J. S. McLean, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Peter J. Collins, contra.
    Adams, J.; Pomerbne, J., and Douglass, J., concur.
    
      
       Affirmed by the Supreme Court without report, 60 Ohio St., 579.
    
   First. A judgment may be set aside for fraud notwithstanding the fact that no defense was made at the time it was rendered, although the defendant was properly served with summons by copy thereof left at her usual place of residence.

Second. A judgment procured against a party on an account which she never owed, nor became either directly or indirectly liable for its payment, constitutes a fraud on the court rendering such judgment, which should be set aside in a proper proceeding brought for that purpose.

Third. An averment in a petition that goods or merchandise were sold to a husband, and that afterwards and before suit is brought to recover the price thereof, the plaintiffs inserted the name of the wife of such husband in said account, and without her knowledge or consent, is a sufficient averment of fraud to constitute a cause of action and a demurrer to such petition and pertinent interrogatories attached thereto is properly overruled.