Burnside v. Watkins

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Simpson.

This was a motion by the appellant to have endorsed on a judgment and execution issued thereon, obtained by appellant against the defendant, Elizabeth O. Watkins, that $286.66 of said judgment was for the purchase money of a certain tract of land assigned to the said Elizabeth in partition of the real estate of her husband, deceased, it being contended that the land assigned exceeded in value her third by the amount above specified. The endorsement claimed was not entered when the judgment was obtained, and a homestead having…