Zerns v. Watson ex rel. Sitzer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Union. July 26. This was a scire facias to revive a judgment against a terre-tenant, in which John C. Watson, for the use of David Stitzer, was plaintiff, and Samuel Zerns, the terre-tenant, was defendant. The facts were these:— On the 9th September, 1842, one Henry Roush entered into articles of agreement with Zerns to sell to him a certain tract of land.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Union. July 26. This was a scire facias to revive a judgment against a terre-tenant, in which John C. Watson, for the use of David Stitzer, was plaintiff, and Samuel Zerns, the terre-tenant, was defendant. The facts were these:— On the 9th September, 1842, one Henry Roush entered into articles of agreement with Zerns to sell to him a certain tract of land. On the 14th January, 1848, Watson obtained a judgment against Roush and David Stitzer, who was security of Roush, by confession, in the penal sum of $3,000, to indemnify Watson against certain encumbrances, not…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of this court was delivered by
Bell, J.
Certainly the original judgment recovered by Wat*262son against Roush and Stitzer, bound the legal estate of the former in the land he had covenanted to convey to Zerns, to the extent of the unpaid purchase-money, for the payment of which the legal title was retained as security. The lien of the judgment might, therefore, have been revived against Zerns as terre-tenant, any time within five years from its rendition. But it was not so revived. On the contrary, the first scire facias was issued against the original defendants alone, without notice…
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