When one judgment has been recovered against several defendants, execution shall issue thereon against all the defendants, and not otherwise.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 62, art. 1(3); 1857, ch. 61, art. 269; 1871, § 840; 1880, § 1774; 1892, § 3461; 1906, § 3960; Hemingway's 1917, § 2967; 1930, § 3013; 1942, § 1901.
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