III. The pretended Reno divorce was void and was subject to collateral attack. Christian v. O'Neal, 46 Miss. 669; McCraney v. New Orleans N.E.R. Co., 128 Miss. 248, 90 So. 881; Plummer v. Plummer, 37 Miss. 185; Richardson v. Brooks, 52 Miss. 118; Rowell v. Logan, 243 Miss. 479, 138 So.2d 737. IV. The Chancellor's finding that there was never a legal marriage of E.B. Sauls, Sr. to the mother of the appellants is supported by the overwhelming weight of the evidence.
I. The original judgments rendered by the court in favor of appellees are good and valid judgments. Cotton v. Harlan, 124 Miss. 691, 87 So. 152; Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis v. Wall, 138 Miss. 204, 103 So. 5; Honeywell v. Aaron, 228 Miss. 284, 88 So.2d 558; Rowell v. Logan, 243 Miss. 479, 138 So.2d 737; Touchstone v. Moore, 227 Miss. 415, 86 So.2d 352; Whitley v. Towle, 163 Miss. 418, 141 So. 571; 50 C.J.S., Judgments, Sec. 893. II. The liability of appellant, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company is an absolute liability. Cohen v. Metropolitan Casualty Insurance of New York, 252 N.Y.S. 841, 233 App. Div. 340; Hartford Accident Indemnity Co. v. Breen, 153 N.Y.S.2d 732, 2 A.D.2d 271; National Grange Mutual Liability Co. v. Fino, 212 N.Y.S.2d 684, 13 A.D.2d 10; Sec. 345 (i)(1), Consolidated Laws of New York Annotated; 27 N.Y.U. Law Rev. 821.
It is true that, if a decree is void on its face, or it is procured by fraud, it may be collaterally attacked at a subsequent term. Horne v. Moorehead, 169 Miss. 362, 152 So. 495; Natis v. Jackson, 205 Miss. 490, 38 So.2d 925. But the record in the present case, on its face, does not appear to be void. Actually it appears to be good. In the recent case of Rowell v. Logan, 243 Miss. 479, 138 So.2d 737, the Court was dealing with this principle and the opinion made the following observation: "The presumption as to regularity was well stated in Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Agnew, 170 Miss. 604, 155 So. 205, where it was said: `The presumption of law is that public officers have performed their duties.