Moore v. Smith

James Moore lived and died intestate in Tennessee, ■and there Fuller Moore qualified as his administrator.

Among decedent’s personal effects was found a $300.00 note, executed by E. C. Smith and Mary Smith, his wife, and payable to Moore. A Tennessee justice’s judgment on this note was obtained. Process was served on E. C. Smith, who chanced to go into Tennessee from his Vir*624ginia home. On this Tennessee judgment an action was instituted before a Virginia justice. That action went to judgment and to enforce it this suit was instituted, its purpose being to have a deed from Smith and wife to J.…