Wade v. Poma Glass & Specialty Windows, Inc.

Opinion of the Court

by Chief Justice MINTON.

Poma Glass & Specialty Windows, Inc., is trying to collect on a civil judgment obtained in 1991 against Wade. The statute of limitations for an action upon a judgment or decree of a court is fifteen years, “to be computed from the date of the last execution thereon.”1 The question raised in this case is how to define execution for purposes of this fifteen-year statute of limitations. Does execution mean the issuance of the formal process for the collection of a judgment, known as a writ of execution; or does the word have the more general meaning of…