Searight's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 502, Jan. T., 1894, by Joseph A. Stuart, a judgment creditor of F. W. Searight, deceased, from decree of O. C. Cumberland Co., dismissing .exceptions to report of auditor. Exceptions to report of Edw. B. Watts, Esq., auditor. The following opinion was filed by Stewart, P. J., specially presiding: “ Subrogation was claimed for Joseph A. Stuart under the following circumstances : Lewis F. Lyne was plaintiff in judgment No. 168 Jan.
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Appeal, No. 502, Jan. T., 1894, by Joseph A. Stuart, a judgment creditor of F. W. Searight, deceased, from decree of O. C. Cumberland Co., dismissing .exceptions to report of auditor. Exceptions to report of Edw. B. Watts, Esq., auditor. The following opinion was filed by Stewart, P. J., specially presiding: “ Subrogation was claimed for Joseph A. Stuart under the following circumstances : Lewis F. Lyne was plaintiff in judgment No. 168 Jan. T.’, 1887, for $7,000 against George P. Sea-right and F., W. Searight. Stuart was plaintiff in a later judgment against George P. Searight to No. 602…
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Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mitchell,
If it were necessary to consider appellant’s right of subrogation to the hyne judgment, the question might well be rested on the opinion of the learned judge below, ivhich shows clearly the absence of any equity on which such subrogation could rest. But even conceding the right, the Lyne judgment was junior to the Bosler lien if that was still alive against F. W. Searight’s land. -The only question therefore is whether the Bosler judgment, having lost its lien against the land of G. P. Searight, the principal, still kept its hold on the estate of the suret3r, by…
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