P. J. Willis & Brother v. Stroud

Citations

• 67 Tex. 516
• 3 S.W. 732
• 1887 Tex. LEXIS 917

Syllabus

<p>1. Limitation of Judgment.—A judgment is barred by limitation after the expiration of ten years from the date when the last execution thereon issued.</p> <p>2. Same—Statute Construed.—The third section of the Act of November 9, 1866 (Paschal’s Digest, 7007), which provides that no judgment shall become dormant unless ten years shall have elapsed between the issuance of executions thereon, did not postpone the date from which limitation would begin to run against a revival of the judgment.</p> <p>3. Same.—Limitation upon a judgment does not begin to run from the date when it became dormant. Its period of dormancy can have no influence in fixing the date when the statute begins to ran.</p> <p>4, Cases Distinguished.—This ease distinguished from Black v. Epperson, 40 Texas, 163, and DeWitt v. Jones, 17 Texas, 620.</p>