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43 Pa. 129

Cross v. Stahlman

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided June 26, 1862

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1862-06-26

Error, to the Common Pleas of Juniata county. This was a scire facias sur mortgage by Solomon Stahlman, for the use of W. J. Kirk, against Samuel Cross and William Cross, with notice to Alexander Eaton, terre-tenant. The material facts of the case were as follows,: — Oh the 30th of March 1839, Samuel and William Cross executed a mortgage to Solomon Stahlman, to secure the payment of $2000, in five annua-l instalments, commencing on the 1st of April 1840.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently September 1936

2 state decisions

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Decided 1862-06-26

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¶1The opinion of the court was delivered, by

Read, J.

¶2This case was virtually decided in The Commonwealth v. Wilson, 10 Casey 63, where we held that a judgment on a bond secured by mortgage is not payable out of the proceeds of a sheriff’s sale of the mortgaged premises under a junior judgment. In that case the defendants in this suit and *134the mortgagors recovered from Sheriff Wilson, on his official bond, the amount paid by them to J. & J. Milliken, for their judgment against them, and upon which a testatum fi. fa. was issued to Centre county, and levied upon their personal property. The ground of this recovery was that, upon a sale of these mortgaged premises, under this junior judgment, the sheriff, instead of paying this judgment, had paid the amount in his hands to the holder of the prior mortgage on account of a judgment on one of the bonds secured by it, and had taken from him a refunding receipt. Sheriff Wilson paid the amount recovered from him, and he was repaid by the holder of the mortgage, which, of course, left so much still due on the mortgage which' had never been satisfied.

¶3In the present suit on this mortgage the plaintiffs below have recovered the amount thus remaining due on it, being the amount paid by them to Sheriff Wilson, with interest. In this we can discover no error, and, therefore,

¶4The judgment is affirmed.

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