Bowman v. Hoke

Citations

• 30 Pa. Super. 633
• 1906 Pa. Super. LEXIS 137

Syllabus

<p>Judgment — Revival—Posthumous child, — Intestate laws — Devise.</p> <p>Where the owner of land devises it to his wife subject to the lien of a judgment, and the testator leaves to survive him his wife and two daughters and after his death a posthumous daughter is born, and the judgment is revived by amicable scire facias against his wife as executrix, terre-tenant and sole devisee, and the posthumous daughter claims and receives one-third of the proceeds of the land raised by a sale under the- revived judgment, such daughter cannot three years thereafter, and after valuable improvements have been made on the property, tender back the money , paid her and maintain an ejectment for one third-interest in the land.</p>