WESTERN STATES COLLECTION COMPANY v. Shain

OPINION

STEPHENSON, Justice.

The trial court entered judgment on the pleadings in favor of appellees (defendants) and appellant (plaintiff) appeals. We reverse.

Plaintiff sued to foreclose the lien of a judgment. Suit was filed within seven years of the entry of the judgment, but more than four years after a transcript of it had been recorded as a lien. One of defendants’ affirmative defenses was that the judgment lien had been barred by the statute of limitations. On defendants’ motion for judgment on the pleadings, the trial court dismissed the complaint on that basis.

Judgment liens, which did…