Goodman v. Sanger
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia county: Of May Term 1879, No. 35. Ejectment by John H. Goodman against John Sanger to recover four hundred acres of land in Conyngham township, Columbia county.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia county: Of May Term 1879, No. 35. Ejectment by John H. Goodman against John Sanger to recover four hundred acres of land in Conyngham township, Columbia county. On the 10th of January 1794, a warrant was granted to Johnston Besely for four hundred acres of land in Northumberland county; and in pursuance thereof a survey of four hundred acres and the allowance, on the waters of Catawissa creek, in said county of Northumberland, was made on the 7th of March 1794, and on the 16th of October, in the same year, a patent for .this tract of land was…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
The Act of March 13th 1815, which makes it the duty of county commissioners to buy unseated lands at tax-sales requires them ,to provide a book and enter therein the name of the person as whose estate the same was sold, the quantity of land, and the amount of taxes it was sold for. In that book they shall charge every such tract with reasonable county and road tax, for five years, if the land shall remain so long unredeemed. It may be redeemed within said period by paying the taxes for which it was sold and costs, and the taxes which shall have been assessed from year to year after the sale,…
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