Watkins v. Martin

The plaintiff in error seeks to reverse a judgment which ho recovered against the defendant in the court below, for $1,140, residue of debt, with damages and costs: and the defendant pleads in bar that the plaintiff caused an execution to issue on tlie judgment, which was afterwards, and before the issuance of the writ of error, fully paid off and satisfied.

It is insisted, on demurrer that the matters alleged in the plea, are not sufficient to bar the writ. We think they are. Where a party has recovered a judgment, and received the amount of it from the defendant, he will not be permitted to…