Edmonds' Ex'rs v. Goodwyn
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equity, in Coweta superior court. Decision on demurrer, by Judge Hammond, at September Term, 1858. This was a bill filed by plaintiffs in error as executors of of the last will and testament of Thos.
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Equity, in Coweta superior court. Decision on demurrer, by Judge Hammond, at September Term, 1858. This was a bill filed by plaintiffs in error as executors of of the last will and testament of Thos. Edmonds, deceased, late of Dinwiddie county in the State of Virginia, against the defendants in error, of the county of Coweta, in the State of Georgia, seeking to enforce and recover satisfaction of certain judgments obtained in the State of Virginia against Burwell Goodwyn, the defendants’ testator. The bill alleges that these judgments were recovered 7th April, 1830; and that said Burwell…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.,
delivering the opinion.
This is an attempt to enforce a foreign judgment, thirty yeai’s old, against certain persons in this State. To the plea of the statute of limitations, the complainant replies that while it is true that he had a cause of action upon his judgment against the estate of Burwell Goodwyn, the debtor, that he had none which he could enforce against the defendants, until the fraudulent concealment of certain property by them, belonging to Burwell Goodwyn, *41was recently discovered. Let this pass for as much as it is worth. We rather think it was a…
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