Benton v. Maddox

At the March term, 1940, of Putnam Superior Court there came oh to be tried the case of L. O. Benton, transferee, against J. D. Maddox, the same being an issue formed upon an affidavit of illegality filed by the defendant to the levy on certain personal property of the defendant of an execution against him in favor of the plaintiff. The defense interposed was that the defendant had never been served with the petition and process in the suit in which the judgment had been rendered; that he had never appeared and pleaded therein, and had never authorized any one to do so for him; that the…