Scanland v. Mixer

Bullock, on the fifteenth of July, 1874, recovered a judgment against Mixer, before a justice of the peace of Morris township, for the sum of $187.70. The suit had been removed, by change of venue, from another township. An appeal was prayed and granted. The affidavit and bond required by law were duly filed on the thirty-first of the same month. The justice failed to send up the transcript to the next term of the circuit court, and his office expired in November following. On the twenty-seventh day of February, 1875, his successor issued an execution on the judgment, which was levied upon…