United States ex rel. Field v. Township of Oswego

These are judgments rendered on township bonds 10 years ago. The last proceedings upon these judgments were in 1878, and they were mandamus proceedings against the township officers. Thereafter, from 1878 until 1885, more than six years, the plaintiffs and relators took no action thereon. Last fall an alternative writ was sued out against the county commissioners of the county of Labette. The question is whether those judgments were alive, so that any proceeding could be had to enforce them. It is settled in this state, both by statute and decisions, that a judgment becomes dormant in five…