Court Opinion

ID: 9831435
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:06:21.396153+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:34.768774
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
We are not unmindful of the general rule that, where a court of general jurisdiction has exercised its powers, it will be presumed that it had jurisdiction both of the subject-matter of the action and of the parties, as well as to render the judgment actually rendered, unless the contrary appears of record. But here the general jurisdictional power of the court was not invoked, but only that special jurisdiction conferred by section 5a of article 8307. It is our view that no presumptive jurisdiction obtained in that case; that the jurisdiction was limited to the exercise of the specific power granted in that special statute, and the court’s jurisdiction was restricted to the particular subject-matter delegated in section 5a, to wit, the matter of the maturing and enforcement of the award made by the tribunal created by the statute for ‘ that purpose. It is said in 15 C. J. pp. 831, 832, that:
“It is very generally considered that there is no presumption of jurisdiction where a court, although it is one of general jurisdiction, exercises special statutory powers in a special statutory manner, or otherwise than according to the course of the common law, since, under such circumstances, the court stands, with respect to the special power exercised, on the same footing ' with courts of limited and inferior jurisdiction.”
 If the court was without jurisdiction to render the judgment now in question, that judgment is void, and may be set aside by ' direct attack, as is sought to be done in this action. Now, appellee urges that appellant is estopped to question that judgment, since the latter acquiesced therein, and received and accepted the sum of $3,000 in satisfaction thereof. We take it, however, that the equities of the parties growing out ,of that transaction can be adjusted in the final disposi*598tion of the suit, according to the justice of the case.
Appellee’s motion for rehearing is overruled.