Case ID: ohio-st_10/html/0416-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

*Joseph Bobo v. Joseph H. Norton.
    Error to the common pleas of Athens county. Reserved in the-district court.
   By the Court.

In an action brought March 15,1856, upon a. recognizance executed February 3, 1838, for stay of execution on a judgment upon a docket of a justice of the peace of this state, upon demurrer to answer, setting up that the action did not accrue within fifteen years next before it was brought: Held, that such recognizance is a specialty within the meaning of the 13th section of the code of civil procedure, and that therefore an action can not* be brought thereon after the expiration of fifteen years, Stockwell v. Coleman, ante, 33, followed and approved.

John Welch, for plaintiff in error.

¿3. £. Knowles, for defendant in error,

Judgment sustaining the demurrer to the answer reversed, and cause remanded for further proceedings.