Right v. Martin

This was a proceeding by the appellees against the appellants, in the Common Pleas, to procure execution against certain lands, upon a judgment rendered by a justice of the peace, on the 25th of August, 1839.

The defendant filed an answer of several paragraphs.

Trial by the Court, finding for the plaintiffs, and judgment awarding execution.

Numerous objections are made to these proceedings, but we shall only notice one, as that is decisive of the case.

The defendants answered, amongst other things, that the judgment was rendered more than fourteen years before the filing of the transcript, and…