Meyer v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co. of Pittsburg

Citations

• 230 Pa. 106
• 79 A. 249
• 1911 Pa. LEXIS 570

Syllabus

<p>Judgment — Lien—Scire facias to revive — Bona fide -purchaser — Decedents’ estates.</p> <p>1. Where a widow takes a deed from her children for their interest in land of which her husband, their father, died seized, for the consideration of “one dollar and other good and valuable consideration,” subject to the lien of mortgages, judgments and municipal hens, aggregating more than the value of the land, the widow is not a bona fide purchaser as against a judgment creditor and such creditor may revive his judgment notwithstanding the deed, although more than five years had elapsed since the entry of judgment.</p> <p>2. A judgment recovered against a decedent in his lifetime after his death continues a hen on his real estate indefinitely as against his heirs and devisees.</p>