Middleton v. Lockhart

Annabelle Clinton Imber, Justice.

This appeal arises from an attempt by Appellees Geraldine Lockhart, Mildred Anderson, Joyce Henson, and Jessie Brewer to execute a Missouri court’s wrongful-death judgment by forcing the sale of real estate located within the State of Arkansas. Appellants Lynn Carl Middleton and Joyce Middleton (the Middletons) filed a motion to quash execution of that judgment, alleging a Missouri statute of limitations on judgments is controlling and, under that statute, the judgment is presumed paid. The appellees argued below that the Missouri statute of limitations was…