Scott v. Watson

The ChancelloR:

In May, 1861, the complainant recovered a judgment, before a justice of the peace of this county, against the defendant E. S. Cheathem for $234.50, which was stayed by Samuel Watson, the testator of the defendants Watson. In the year 1866, the justice’s office, with all his official dockets and papers, was destroyed by fire. On January 12, 1869, proceedings were instituted before the justice’s successor in office to have execution of the judgment under the act of 1860, ch. 54, sec. 1 (T. & S. Rev.,sec. 3070a). But, upon billfiled by the stayor, Watson, on whose property the…