Houstoun v. Houstoun

This is an appeal by the defendant Richard C. Houstoun from adverse partial final summary judgments entered in an action to foreclose certain alleged judgment liens recorded against the defendant’s real property. We reverse the judgments under review and remand the cause to the trial court with directions to dismiss the foreclosure action below. We reach this result because the three recorded court orders, upon which the plaintiff Mara Rafart Houstoun seeks to foreclose as judgment liens, are not, in fact, final monetary judgments upon which execution may issue, and, accordingly, do not…