Gray v. Marrs

The question in this case is whether a judgment in favor of a partnership becomes dormant upon the death of a member of the partnership.

The defendant Dola Tyler and her father, a partnership doing business under the name of Tyler Cabinet & Mill Works, obtained judgment in a former action establishing a lien against improvements on certain property since conveyed by its then owner to the present plaintiff. Prior to execution on the judgment the father died, leaving the defendant Dola Tyler as the sole surviving partner of the firm. More than a year elapsed after his death, during which time no…