Hays v. Baker

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

' Some time prior to 1917 one Gideon Ison, Sr., recovered a judgment in Letcher county against one Jesse Roark, the exact amount of which is not shown by the record, but it was in the neighborhood of $1,000. However, its precise amount is not material. Roark, the defendant in that judgment, was then a resident of Letcher county, but later, and without satisfying the judgment, he moved to Jackson county, where he purchased a tract of land. Following that, Gideon Ison died, and his son Byrd Ison qualified in Letcher county as his personal…