Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court April 15, 1840 (Smith v. Morrison)

Wilde J.

delivered the opinion of the Court. The claim of the appellant is founded on a judgment rendered by a justice of the peace in his favor, against the defendant’s intestate, in the year 1817. Since the appeal to this Court the case has been submitted to a" referee, and the question of law by him submitted to the Court is, whether the claim is barred by any statute of limitations.