Tift v. Bank of Tifton

The only question involved in this case is whether, in an action to enforce a judgment, the provision of the Code, § 3-805, that if the defendant, in any of the cases therein named, shall remove from this State, the time of his absence from the State and until he returns to reside shall not be counted or estimated in his favor, refers to the time within which a judgment becomes dormant if it is not kept alive in any of the ways provided by law. This section has been in every Code since the Code of 1863, where it was § 2870. In the Code of 1868 it was § 2878. In the Code of 1873 it was § 2929.…