Mason v. Fearson
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an action of ejectment brought by John Mason, in his lifetime, to recover possession • of some lots in- the city of Washington held under a tax title. The case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the County of Washington and District of Columbia, In the trial of the cause in the Circuit Court, the following statement of tacts was agreed upon, subject to the opinion of the court upon it. Statement.
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This was an action of ejectment brought by John Mason, in his lifetime, to recover possession • of some lots in- the city of Washington held under a tax title. The case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the County of Washington and District of Columbia, In the trial of the cause in the Circuit Court, the following statement of tacts was agreed upon, subject to the opinion of the court upon it. Statement. “ The plaintiff, to support the issue on his part, made out a' title in one Benjamin Stoddert, in all the lots in the declaration mentioned,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodbury
Several 'reasons have been assigned for the reversal of the judgment in this case; but as we think one of them is well 'founded, it is not necessary to examine the others. That one is the sale of each of the twenty lots, assessed to the Washington Tontine Company, instead of selling the first two lots only, they having been bid off for more than enough to pay the taxes on the whole. The sale of all of them was, therefore, unnecessary to insure the collection of all the taxes; and as they brought but little beyond one fourth of their appraised value, the sale of all was not only unnecessary,…
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