Farmers National Bank v. Kern

Opinion by

Wright, J.,

We are here concerned with a dispute over the distribution of the proceeds of a sheriff’s sale of real estate on a writ of fieri facias. The sheriff’s schedule of distribution, after providing for costs and taxes, called for payment of the entire balance to the Farmers National Bank of Pennsburg, hereinafter referred to as Farmers, on whose judgment the writ had issued. Exceptions were filed by the Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company, hereinafter referred to as Commonwealth, on the ground that its lien, although subsequent on the record, should be prior in…