Hatcher v. Lord

Peyton Clay obtained a judgment against Parker, and the execution issued thereon was levied upon a tract of land; and on July 3, 1899, Emma Hatcher and others interposed a claim to the same. Upon the trial of the clafta case the claimants offered an amendment to the joinder of issue, in which they set up that Parker, the defendant in execution, died in 1879; that there never had been any administration on his estate, and that at the time of the levy in the present case his estate was unrepresented; that Peyton Clay, the plaintiff in execution, died on the 11th day of November, 1880; that E.…