Akin v. Freeman
Supreme Court of Georgia
Statute of limitations. Judgment. Execution. Bond for titles. On November 22d, 1858, Akin recovered a judgment in Cass Superior Court against the Cherokee Baptist College, as principal, and John H. Rice, as indorser, for $1,000 00 principal, besides interests and costs.
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Statute of limitations. Judgment. Execution. Bond for titles. On November 22d, 1858, Akin recovered a judgment in Cass Superior Court against the Cherokee Baptist College, as principal, and John H. Rice, as indorser, for $1,000 00 principal, besides interests and costs. Execution was issued on this judgment on December 6th, 1858, upon which were the following entries : A receipt, signed by the clerk, for $9 25 costs, dated July 26th, 1859; a receipt from plaintiff to the defendant for $156 75, interest due thereon, dated December 22, 1859; an affidavit by the plaintiff that Rice had removed…
1Opinion of the Court
Trippe, Judge.
The question, whether the different Acts suspending the statutes of limitation operated to suspend the statutory provisions in reference to judgments becoming satisfied or dor*54rnant, by having no entry upon them within seven years, or having their lien discharged, so far as relates to property sold by the defendant, when the purchaser has been in possession of land so sold for four years, has been for several years exhaustively argued before this Court, and in the decisions heretofore made. I do not propose to be prolix, or to wrong the professional readet, in giving the reasons…
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