Board of Supervisors v. Gordon

Citations

• 82 Ill. 435

Syllabus

<p>1. Mandamus—to compel payment of judgment. A petition for a mandamus to compel a county to pay a judgment, is an action, within the meaning of the Limitation Law of 1849, requiring all actions founded upon judgments to be commenced within sixteen years.</p> <p>2. Statute of Limitations—continues when it has once begun to run. Where a Statute of Limitations begins to run, it will continue to run until it operates as a complete bar, unless there is some saving or qualification in the statute itself.</p> <p>8. Same—appeal does not prevent running of, against judgment appealed from. Where a judgment is rendered in the circuit court, and an appeal prayed, but the appeal is not perfected until after the adjournment of the court for the term, the Statute of Limitations begins to run from the last day of the term, and the fact that the appeal is afterwards perfected and the cause heard upon such appeal in the Supreme Court, will not stop its running, hut the bar will he complete at the expiration of the time limited by the statute from the last day of the term, notwithstanding the appeal.</p>