Petray v. Howell
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pope Circuit Court in Chancery. Hon. John J. Clendenin, Circuit Judge. This case wag argued before Mr. Justice Compton and Hon! Thomas Johnson, Special Judge.
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Appeal from Pope Circuit Court in Chancery. Hon. John J. Clendenin, Circuit Judge. This case wag argued before Mr. Justice Compton and Hon! Thomas Johnson, Special Judge. Mr. Chief Justice English not sitting, and Mr. Justice Rector, absent. contended that the lien of a Justice’s judgment attaches upon the filing of the transcript, under the statute, and that the failure of the Clerk to docket the judgment as required by law, does not prevent the lien from attaching; and cited Jones vs. Luck, 7 Mo. Rep. 551; Wineland vs. Coonce, 5 Mo. Rep. 296; Cowley vs. Wallace, 12 Mo. Rep. 147; Beverly vs.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Compton
This was a bill in chancery, brought to recover the north-half of the north-east quarter of section 31, township 8 north, range 20 west. The Chancellor dismissed the bill, and Petray, the complainant below, appealed.
On the 6th March, 1841, William Ennis, and Josiah L. K. Honeycut, entered said quarter section at the proper land office of the United States, and took a joint certificate of entry, which, on the same day, they transferred by assignment, to Laban C. Howell and Alexander D. Crews. On the 1st of May, 1845, the land was patented to the assignees of the certificate, as tenants in…
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