Butts v. Cruttenden

Citations

• 14 Pa. Super. 449
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 66

Syllabus

<p>Lien — Judgment defectively indexed — Notice.</p> <p>If a subsequent incumbrancer have actual notice of a judgment defectively indexed before his rights attach, it is equivalent to the constructive notice required to be given by the judgment docket.</p> <p>Notice — Proof of equivalent knowledge.</p> <p>Proof that brings home knowledge of a fact to a person, if he will but use his senses and reasoning faculties, is in a great variety of eases held to be sufficient to affect him with notice.</p> <p>Judgment index— Omission of middle letter — Effect of notice — Junior lien..</p> <p>Where adebtor is indifferently known as William and William J., obligations being given by the debtor both with and without the middle letter “ J.,” and when the conduct of a mortgagee indicates that he was not misléd by a prior judgment given and recorded without such middle letter, such judgment will not be denied participation in proceeds of sheriff’s sale of land standing in the name of William J,</p>