Simmons v. Simmons

This Court in McMahon et al. v. Brown et al., 66 S. D. 134, 279 N. W. 538, dealt with our various code sections relating to the enforcement and life of judgments and determined that the only way the right of recovery on a judgment could be prolonged beyond twenty-year limit from time of docketing of the judgment was to bring an action on the judgment and secure a new judgment. In so doing we followed the general rule that the statute of limitations begins to run against an action on a judgment from the date of its rendition and entry which seems to be supported by a decided weight of…