Lawyers Title Ins. v. P.R.T. Enterprises, Inc.

By Judge Lydia Calvert Taylor

This matter came to be heard by the Court, as Chancellor, on plaintiff Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation’s (“ Lawyers Title” ) petition to recover on a federal judgment on which defendant PRT Enterprises had defaulted as debtor in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Lawyers Title purchased that judgment, thus paying PRT’s debt and becoming subrogated to the rights of the federal judgment creditor. Lawyers Title was obliged to clear that cloud on the land title created by the judgment in federal court, which had been registered as a lien…