STB Marketing Corp. v. Zolfaghari

The primary issue that we consider in this appeal is whether the trial court erred when it sustained the defendant’s plea of the statute of limitations in an action for fraud.

STB Marketing Corporation (STB) was awarded a judgment against Leon and Louise Petrossian in the amount of $28,258.45 plus interest and costs on January 19, 1979. On January 18, 1979, one day before STB’s judgment against the Petrossians was entered, a second deed of trust conveying a parcel of land owned by the Petrossians was recorded among the land records in Fairfax County. This deed of trust secured a promissory…