Fanton v. Middlebrook
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action on a judgment; brought to the Court of Common Pleas, and tried to the court before Sail, J. Facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and motion for a new trial by the defendant. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
In the month of April, 1858, the plaintiff recovered judgment against the defendant before a justice of the peace in the state of Michigan, for the sum of two hundred and thirty-four dollars debt and costs of suit. Since that time the plaintiff has resided in this state, but the defendant has resided elsewhere. One .of the statutes of Michigan provides that no action shall be maintained or execution issued, except within six years, upon any judgment of any court, not a eourt of record. It .is found that the judgment has in fact never been paid.
The defendant claimed on the trial that inasmuch…
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