Peters v. Heasley
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the district court of Venango county. Richard Peters against Henry Heasley and others. Ejectment for 1000 acres of land. The plaintiff exhibited a regular legal title from the commonwealth for the land in dispute. The defendants relied upon, and gave in evidence, a title derived from a treasurer’s sale of the land as unseated, for the payment of taxes, which sale was made to the commissioners.
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ERROR to the district court of Venango county. Richard Peters against Henry Heasley and others. Ejectment for 1000 acres of land. The plaintiff exhibited a regular legal title from the commonwealth for the land in dispute. The defendants relied upon, and gave in evidence, a title derived from a treasurer’s sale of the land as unseated, for the payment of taxes, which sale was made to the commissioners. Upon the trial the plaintiff contended, that the provisions of the fourth section of the act of 13th March 1815, which dispense with the necessity of making proof of all the prerequisites to a…
1Opinion of the Court
*209The opinion of the court was delivered by
Hustoñ, J.
After a series of decisions on the construction and effect of the act of 13th March 1815, from 13 Serg. & Rawle, &c., to this time, we are asked in this case to. reconsider them all, to go back to the earliest, decisions, and decide that unless the purchaser can show at the trial that every direction and requisite of the law has been punctually complied with, the purchaser has no title. The act of 1815, was framed expressly to dispense with such proof, and it has been so repeatedly decided, that after two years allowed by the act within which…
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