Hepburn v. Hey

Opinion by

Me. Justice Linn,

This appeal is from an order striking off an entry of satisfaction of a judgment. It has been said that when a court orders the satisfaction of a judgment, “It not only annihilates the judgment, but it extinguishes both the evidence of a debt and the debt itself,” and that without statutory power to do so, a court may not order satisfaction summarily: Horner & McCann v. Hower, 39 Pa. 126, 128; Reynolds v. Barnes, 76 Pa. 427.

The judgment which is the subject of this appeal was entered June 9,1932, pursuant to a warrant accompanying a bond secured by mortgage. The…