Geesey v. Stouch

This appeal presents a very narrow question of practice, and we will dispose of it briefly.

A judgment was rendered against the defendant, Augustus M. Geesey, 16th November, in 1883, in the Circuit Court for Frederick County in favor of William R. Stouch and others co-partners, for the sum of three hundred and ten dollars. On the 2nd May, 1895, within twelve years from the rendition of the judgment, a writ of scire facias was issued and returned nihil, and on the 15 th July, of the same year, scire facias was again issued and a similar return was made by the sheriff. Upon these two nihils…