Patterson v. Gordon

The Chancellor:

Petition to have a judgment at law declared void, and its execution perpetually enjoined, upon the following facts:

On April 23, 1860, E. H. Childress recovered a judgment before a justice of the peace,- against T. M. Patterson, M. L. Patterson, and E. M. Patterson, for $470. E. M. Patterson afterwards died, and petitioner James T. Patterson qualified as his administrator. In January, 1866, scire facias was sued out on this judgment, in the name of Thomas Chadwell, executor of E. H. Childress, who had also died, and against said petitioner as administrator of E. M. Patterson, to…