Gibbons v. Goodrich

On the 10th day of May, 1878, a scire facias was sued out of the City Court of Aurora, to revive a judgment rendered in the Court of Common Pleas of said city on the 14th day of December, 1860. Appellant, the defendant in the judgment;’ being served with the scire facias, appeared, and pleaded that the writ of scire facias was not issued within sixteen years next after the rendition of the judgment. To these pleas the plaintiff below demurred, and the court sustaining the demurrer, ordered execution upon the judgment, and the defendant below appeals to this court.

Several questions of a…