Tospon v. Sipe

Citations

• 116 Pa. 588
• 11 A. 873
• 1887 Pa. LEXIS 427

Syllabus

<p>In proceedings in partition resulting in the sale of a decedent’s land, the widow’s dower interest was fixed in a decree of distribution. A subsequent purchaser confessed a judgment to the widow and the heirs expressly to secure the dower interest, and the lien of the judgment was preserved by several revivals. Subsequently, the annual interest being in arrear, by vend. ex. process on said judgment, the land was sold under a notice that the sale was subject to the dower interest, and, the annual interest again becoming in arrear, a scire facias was issued to revive the judgment against the sheriff’s vendee: Held that the lien of the judgment had not been divested by the sheriff’s sale.</p>