Arrowsmith v. Durell

The only question presented for our decision is, whether or not a devolutive appeal suspends or interrupts the prescription of a judgment under the act of 1853, p. 250.

By the letter of the statute, the question must ho answered in the negative. It provides that: “Hereafter all judgments for money, whether rendered within'or without the State, shall ho prescribed by the lapse of ten years from tho rendition of said judgment; provided, however, that any party interested in any judgment may have tho same revived at any time before it is prescribed by having a citation issued according to law to…