Porter v. Vanderlin

Citations

• 158 Pa. 146
• 27 A. 872
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1558

Syllabus

<p>Execution — Subrogation —• Sheriff's sale — Judgment — Lease — Act of April 22, 1856.</p> <p>A lessee under an oil lease wlio has bought judgments which were liens upon the leased premises prior to the execution of the lease, has a right to issue execution on the judgments, and sell the property subject to his leasehold estate.</p> <p>In such a case the lessee has an equity to have the estate of the defendant in the judgments sold in the inverse order of the conveyances made by him, and the court, under the act of April 22, 1856, P. L. 532, has authority to make an order enforcing this equity.</p>