Smith v. Carlson

Petition for leave to appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court affirming the order of the circuit court of Cook County dismissing a scire facias proceeding to revive a judgment has been granted. The issue presented here on appeal is whether a judgment may be revived in a scire facias proceeding where the affidavit for revival of the judgment by scire facias has been filed and the original scire facias writ has been issued before the expiration of the twenty-year limitation period but an alias scire facias writ, with a return date after said limitation period, has been issued after the…