Camp v. John

Citations

• 259 Pa. 38
• 102 A. 285
• 1917 Pa. LEXIS 509

Syllabus

<p>Judgments — Presumption of payment — Evidence.</p> <p>1. After the expiration of twenty years from maturity, judgments, mortgages and all like obligations are presumed paid and it requires satisfactory and convincing evidence to overcome that presumption.</p> <p>2. On a sci. fa. brought by a use-plaintiff on a judgment entered on an indemnity bond given by a collector of taxes where it appeared that the judgment had been entered more than twenty years prior to the issuance of the writ where there was no satisfactory evidence to overcome the presumption of payment by lapse of time, a judgment was properly directed for the defendant.</p>