DeWitt v. Lehigh Valley Railroad

Citations

• 21 Pa. Super. 10
• 1902 Pa. Super. LEXIS 297

Syllabus

<p>Railroads — Land damages — Parties entitled — Remainderman—Lien of judgment — Judgment—Decedent's estates.</p> <p>Where a railroad company has paid into court a fund representing damages for the destruction of a dwelling house by sparks, and it appears that at the time of the fire, the house and the land connected with it were in the possession of a life tenant, and that the remainderman had judgments against him which were a lien upon his estate in remainder, and it also appears that subsequent to the fire the remainderman died, and that thereafter the land was sold, the fund paid by the railroad company into court, is an asset subject to the life estate for the payment of thei’emainderman’s debts, and does not go to his heirs free from such obligation.</p>