Lawrence County Bank v. Lambert
Lawrence County Bank v. Lambert
Opinion of the Court
To secure the payment of the promissory note of J. M. Lambert for eleven hundred dollars, payable to the Missouri Trust Company, Lambert and his wife, on July 31, 1888, conveyed in trust to B. H. Ingram, trustee, the following described real estate, situated in Barry county, Missouri: The north half of the northwest quarter and twenty and one-half acres off the west side of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 34, township 24, range 29. The deed of trust was timely recorded in the recorder’s office in said county. Interest was paid on the note and extensions of time of payment of the principal granted from
“Release: The debt in the within deed of trust having been fully paid off and discharged, I hereby acknowledge satisfaction in full and release the property herein conveyed from the lien and incumbrance thereon, this
M. T. Abernathy,
Assignee and legal holder of the note.
“A. L. Galloway, Recorder of Deeds.”
Ahemathy filed the new deed of trust for record and after it was recorded returned it and the old deed and note to Allen. On October 12, 1901, S. L. Hankins recovered a judgment against Lambert et al., in the Barry Circuit Court, for five hundred and five dollars. Afterwards Hankins assigned this judgment to the defendants, who, subsequently procured a renewal of the old judgment for eight hundred dollars. After having forwarded the deed back to Allen, Abernathy discovered this renewed judgment on the records of the Barry Circuit Court and immediately informed Allen, whereupon, this 'suit was brought to set aside the satisfaction or release of the original Lambert deed of trust for the purpose of giving plaintiff’s lien priority over the supposed lien of defendants, as judgment creditors of Lambert. The court granted the prayer of the petition by setting aside the release upon the margin of the record of the original deed of trust. Defendants appealed from this judgment.
The judgment reviving the judgment of October 12, 1901, in favor of S. L. Hankins, was not revived on a scire facias sued out by him in his name, but was revived in the name of the defendants on a scire facias sued out by them, as assignees of S. L. Hankins. A suit to revive a judgment is not a new suit but a continuation of the original one (Sutton v. Cole, 155 Mo. 206, 55 S. W. 1052) and a judgment can only be revived in the name of the original judgment creditor, therefore, the defendants were without legal capacity to sue out a writ of scire facias to revive the judgment, and the judgment as revived is void. [Bick v. Tanzey, 181 Mo. l. c. 523, 80 S. W. 902.] The lien of the original judgment had expired by limitation at the time of the trial. The defendants,
The judgment is therefore affirmed.
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