Konigmaker v. Brown
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Armstrong county. These were writs of scire facias in the name of Joseph Konigmaker, administrator de bonis non of Samuel Cochran, deceased, vs. Catharine Brown, acting executrix of James Brown, Jr., deceased, with notice to the widow, heirs, and devisees of said deceased.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Armstrong county. These were writs of scire facias in the name of Joseph Konigmaker, administrator de bonis non of Samuel Cochran, deceased, vs. Catharine Brown, acting executrix of James Brown, Jr., deceased, with notice to the widow, heirs, and devisees of said deceased. They were three writs of scire facias, issued to June term, 1848, to revive three judgments against James Brown, existing to September term, 1825. It was agreed that the following facts be submitted as a ease stated in the nature of a special verdict, for-the opinion and decision of the court,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Bell, J.
— If iteration is of any value in determining discussion, the principal question presented by this record, ought to be treated as at rest. Connected with the subject of lien, there is, perhaps, no one topic that has undergone more frequent examination and *272deliberate decision than that which touches the continued encum'brance of a judgment recovered against a decedent, in his lifetime. The disposition sometimes manifested to prolong the agitation, arises, not from any difficulty inherent in the inquiry, or harshness in operation of the settled…
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