Coney v. Owen
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Crawford county. David Coney and Calvin Mason against William D. Owen and Elias Thayer. This was an action of ejectment, for two hundred acres of land, in the seventh donation district, No. 1453. The land in dispute was originally drawn by John Carlton, a soldier of the revolution, who, on the 11th of March 1829, conveyed the same to the plaintiffs.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Crawford county. David Coney and Calvin Mason against William D. Owen and Elias Thayer. This was an action of ejectment, for two hundred acres of land, in the seventh donation district, No. 1453. The land in dispute was originally drawn by John Carlton, a soldier of the revolution, who, on the 11th of March 1829, conveyed the same to the plaintiffs. The defendants claimed title, under a sale of the land for taxes, as unseated, in 1818; and offered evidence to prove the value of the improvements made upon the land since their purchase. This evidence was objected to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
The argument built on the temporary exemption of donation lands from taxation, is that they are not within the jurisdiction of the fiscal officers, or the operation of those laws which authorize sales of unseated lands; and it would, perhaps, be conclusive were the jurisdiction bounded in respect to them as it is in respect to seated lands. But the words of the act of 1804, which is the groundwork of the succeeding legislation, distinctly embrace them while they are only excepted for a period by a par*436licular statute. “ All unseated, lands…
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