Quill v. Carolina Portland Cement Co.

The appellee brought suit in the Law and Equity Court of Mobile, now merged into the circuit court, and on personal service on Mr. Quill obtained a judgment.

Upon that judgment, under the law having application and for a period of ten years thereafter, execution may issue thereon. Thereafter, for the period of ten years, a personal judgment, as it was, was subject to be revived as provided by statute. Mobile Drug Co. v. McCullough, 215 Ala. 682, 112 So. 238.

The character of scire facias or the order sought was thus declared in an early decision (Miller et al. v. Shackelford, 16 Ala. 95, 99):…