Motley's Administrator v. Carstairs, McCall & Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Pittsylvania county. Decree for the complainants. Defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
The bill in this case was filed by the appellees for the purpose of enforcing the satisfaction of a judgment held by them for $375.00, with interest and costs, which was obtained against S. T. Motley in 1886. This judgment w;as docketed in October, 1886, in the clerk’s office of the Corporation Court of the city of Danville, and was kept alive .by the repeated issuance of execution thereon until 1904, when it was docketed in the county of Pittsylvania where this suit was brought for its satisfaction, by a sale of a tract of forty-five acres of land situated in that county, which appears of…
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