Warren Cotton Oil & Manufacturing Co. v. Sullivan

Hart, C. J.,

(áfter stating the facts). The record shows that appellant obtained judgment against appellee L. L. Sullivan, before a justice of the peace, and, after a return of nulla bona on an execution issued by the justice, the transcript of the judgment was filed in the office of the circuit clerk in the county where ,the lands in controversy are situated. The judgment obtained before the justice of the peace, and filed in the office of the circuit clerk, was a junior lien to a mortgage executed by the owner, of the lands to the Bank of Bison. An execution was issued by the circuit clerk…