Case Name: LEIGHTON, Petitioner for review v. LITHGOW
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Maine
Decision Date: 1822-09
Citations: 2 Me. 114
Docket Number: 
Parties: LEIGHTON, Petitioner for review v. LITHGOW.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maine Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 114–114

Head Matter:
LEIGHTON, Petitioner for review v. LITHGOW.
The three years limited for the prosecution of a petition for review, are to he computed from the term of which the judgment was entitled.
R. Williams, for the petitioner.
Boutelle, for the respondent.

Opinion:
Lithgow recovered a judgment in the Circuit Court of Common Pleas against Leighton more than three years ago, but it was not in fact made up and recorded till last April, so that the petitioner could not prefer his petition till this term ; — and the question was, from what time the three years limited by the statute, beyond which petitions for review cannot be sustained, were to be computed ?
And the Court decided that the period was to be computed . from the term when the judgment was entitled, and not from the time when it was actually made up out of term; — and the plaintiff took nothing by his petition.