Dickson v. Hynes

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

MANNING, J.

The plaintiff obtained judgment against Samuel Hynes in May 1880 for $1,776 with interest, and had it recorded in the same month. Execution having been issued thereon, there was a return of nulla bona. He then instituted this suit to subject to his judgment two tracts of land nominally owned by John T. Doxey, but which he charges are really the property of Hynes. He alleges that Doxey acquired one of these tracts from J. S. Stephens and the other from Meyer, Weis & Co., and that these vendors were merely persons interposed who held title for…