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 ($300,000), and has sustained loss, deprivation, and injury to her damage in said sum." "That said wrongful, fraudulent, and collusive conduct of defendant and his bargaining, tampering with, and bribing the presiding judge upon said trial and the attorney acting for plaintiff, was not brought to the notice or knowledge of plaintiff until about the 28th day of January a. D. 1919; and that with all diligence, after being credibly informed of the circumstances constituting said fraud and collusion, plaintiff brought this action for the purpose of asserting her rights against said defendant and obtaining damages for the wrong, loss, and injury done her by said defendant, under the circumstances hereinbefore set forth.

"Wherefore plaintiff prays judgment against said defendant for the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000), with interest thereon at the rate of 6 per cent per annum from the 28th day of January, 1909, together with her costs and disbursements of this action."

We are of the opinion that the court was correct in sustaining the demurrer. From the averments of the complaint it appears that plaintiff's cause of action, is predicated upon the alleged wrongful rendition of a judgment against her. She claims that the evidence adduced entitled her to judgment, and that by reason of the misconduct of the trial judge an improper judgment was rendered; that such misconduct was occasioned by the acts of the defendant, and that by reason thereof she has been damaged in the sum alleged in the complaint. From the averments of the complaint, it appears, however, that the judgment which the plaintiff seeks to attack was rendered after trial by a court having jurisdiction of the subject-matter and of the parties.

It is elementary that a judgment rendered by a court having jurisdiction of the parties and the subject-matter, unless reversed or annulled, in some proper proceeding, is not open to contradiction or impeachment, in respect to its validity, verity, or binding effect, by parties or privies, in any action or proceeding, 23 Cyc. 1055.

Freeman in his work on Judgments, says: "A party to a judgment feeling himself aggrieved thereby may, in a proper case, either move that it be vacated, or prosecute an appeal or writ of error, or maintain a suit in equity to enjoin its enforcement. These, unless the judgment is void on its face, are the only remedies open to him, and if he resorts to neither, or resorting to any or all he is denied relief, he cannot avoid the judgment, when offered in evidence against him, by proving that it ought not to have been pronounced, and was procured by fraud, mistake, perjury, or