Anderson v. Taylor

The Chancellor :

In this case, in the decision of the rights of Anderson and Douglass on the one side and Jones and Morton on the other, two questions were held up for further argument:

I. Whether the levy of an execution on land during the existence of the judgment-lien under the Code, §§ 2,980, 2,982, gives the judgment-creditor a specific lien which may survive the lien of the judgment, and, if so, whether this execution lien relates back to the teste of the execution.

2. Whether such lien, in this case, if it be held to have been acquired, has been lost by laches, so as to let in the rights…