Palmer v. Hayes

This was a proceeding by Hayes against-Palmer to obtain satisfaction of a judgment on a justice’s docket, pursuant to the provisions of section 1497, R. S. 1881.

Hayes alleged that Palmer had recovered a judgment, against him before a justice of the peace for $238.60, and that the judgment had been paid by the sale and delivery of’ certain personal property, which the judgment creditor had accepted in satisfaction thereof, but that the latter wrongfully refused to cancel the judgment of record.

The defendant answered a former adjudication, alleging that it had been adjudged, in a certain action…