Dull's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Aureal from the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette county: In Equity : Of January Term 1886, No. 191. This was an appeal by Jacob Dull from a decree of said court dismissing his bill, wherein John W. McDowell was defendant.
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Aureal from the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette county: In Equity : Of January Term 1886, No. 191. This was an appeal by Jacob Dull from a decree of said court dismissing his bill, wherein John W. McDowell was defendant. The following is an abstract of the plaintiff’s bill: 1. That your orator is now, and has been for five years last past, continuously a resident of Connellsville borough, in said county. 2. That your orator owned a lot of ground in said borough, during the whole of the year 1879, and now owns and has the same in his possession. 3. That in July, 1879, your orator began tbe…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Green
The Master found as facts in this case that the plaintiff held title to the land in question by deed from the assignee of the former owner, that he subsequently occupied the land, built a house upon it, in which he dwelt from October, 1879, to August, 1882, and from that time on he was in possession by his tenants. He also found that when the land was sold as unseated land for taxes, the plaintiff owed sixty-three cents taxes, but that there was personal property on the premises sufficient to make the tax. This tax title, which the defendant bought and took and held a deed for, was therefore…
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