Court Opinion

ID: 9679060
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 06:39:33.488679+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:33:47.281015
License: Public Domain

WARD, Justice
(concurring).
I concur in the opinion written in this case, but would like to point out that we are holding that a successful collateral attack can be made on the prior judgment of the District Court where in the prior case it had jurisdiction of the persons of both John Bernard and Thomas Douglas Baker, it had jurisdiction of the subject matter of the suit and it had full capacity to act as a Court. Even with this, we are holding that the District Court had no power and no jurisdiction to enter the judgment in Cause No. B-40,659 where it attempted to adjudicate as to new causes of action that had not then been alleged and as to the payment of any adverse judgment that might be rendered against Bernard in Cause No. B-40,487. We are bound by the clear language used by the Supreme Court in Firemen’s Insurance Company of Newark, New Jersey v. Burch, supra.