Winkler v. Baxter
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Arkansas Chancery Court; John M. Elliott, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellant was the plaintiff in the action below, which was a suit in ejectment to recover an undivided half-interest in a certain tract of land situated in Arkansas County.
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Appeal from Arkansas Chancery Court; John M. Elliott, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellant was the plaintiff in the action below, which was a suit in ejectment to recover an undivided half-interest in a certain tract of land situated in Arkansas County. The complaint alleged that plaintiff had obtained a judgment for $79.30 against one Sam Baxter in the court of J. W. Rowsey, a justice of the peace for Old River Township, Jefferson County, Arkansas, and that an execution was issued on this judgment, which was returned nulla bona, and that appellant, on July 11, 1907, obtained a…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.,
(after stating the facts). Sections 4631-4633, of Kirby’s Digest, provide that every justice of the peace, on the demand of any person, in whose favor he had rendered judgment for more than $10, exclusive of costs, shall give to such person, upon payment of costs, a certified copy of such judgment, and that the clerk of the circuit court of the -county in which the judgment was rendered shall, upon the production of any such transcript, file the same in his office, and forthwith enter such judgment in the docket of the -circuit court for judgments -and decrees, and shall note…
2Cited by1 opinion
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