Herder Spring Hunting Club v. Keller, Aplts

OPINION

Justice BAER.1

This case concerns the ownership of subsurface rights to a tract of land in Centre County. The parties’ claims rise or fall based upon whether a 1935 tax sale resulted in the transfer of the entire property or merely the surface rights. After extensive review of the historical law regarding tax sales of unseated land in Pennsylvania, we conclude that the tax sale related to the entire property at issue, including both the surface and subsurface estates.2 Accordingly, we affirm the Superior Court’s order vacating the grant of summary judgment in favor of the Appellants and…