Hooker v. Eakin’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““An examination of the line of cases referred to will show, we think, that in none of them was it held that the effect of recording and indexing a judgment was to create a lien on land not then, in fact, nor apparently, that is, according to the face of the record, owned by the judgment debtor, nor ever afterward, in fact, owned by him. To hold otherwise, it seems to us, would be to ignore the statute which, as stated above, declares that such recording and indexing shall operate as a lien only upon real estate owned at the time or afterwards by the judgment debtor.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lewis v. San Antonio Belt & Terminal Ry. Co.