Corrigan's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Westmoreland county: Of October and November Term 1876, Nos. 213 and 218. Hugh Corrigan died 20th July 1856. The county of Westmoreland brought suit, on the 4th June 1857, against his administrator, to recover the costs on an indictment in the Oyer and Terminer for homicide, and on the 23d February 1859 judgment was obtained by the county for $625.55. On the 9th March 1865 a sci. fa. was issued on this judgment against Corrigan’s…
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Westmoreland county: Of October and November Term 1876, Nos. 213 and 218. Hugh Corrigan died 20th July 1856. The county of Westmoreland brought suit, on the 4th June 1857, against his administrator, to recover the costs on an indictment in the Oyer and Terminer for homicide, and on the 23d February 1859 judgment was obtained by the county for $625.55. On the 9th March 1865 a sci. fa. was issued on this judgment against Corrigan’s administrator, with notice to his heirs and devisees, but no proceedings had on the sci. fa. until the 10th February 1874, when…
1Opinion of the Court
The judgment of the Supreme Court.was entered November 6th 1876,
Per Curiam. —
The cases of Duncan v. Clark, 7 Watts 224; Steel v. Henry, 9 Id. 623, and Payne v. Craft, 7 W. & S. 468, followed by later cases, settle the law, that a suit brought against the personal representative of a decedent, within seven years after his decease, for a debt owing by him at his death, continues the lien of the debt against the real estate for a period of twelve years from the time of his decease, under the Act of 1797, and that a proceeding to revive within five years next following the seven years will…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Steinman v. WilkinsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1844
- Duncan v. ClarkSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1838
3Cited by4 opinions
- Kirk v. Van HornSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1920
- Smith v. WildmanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
- Shakely ex rel. Bartley v. GuthrieSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
- Curtze v. Ostrow, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Erie County1941