Strain v. Babb

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Chiee Justice Simpson.

The plaintiff, appellant, Elizabeth Strain, some time .previous to November, 1880, obtained a decree against John T. McGowan for $1,000, which, on November 5, 1880, was handed to M. E. Babb, the then clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Laurens County, to be by him disposed of according to law. This decree seems to have been marked “filed” by the said Babb, but. nothing more was done. It was not enrolled nor entered in the book of abstract of judgments, nor indexed, and it was found by the successor of Babb in 1885 in an old…