Dougherty v. Dickey
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Common Pleas of Butler county. This was an action of ejectment by Thomas Dickey against. John Dougherty, for 100 acres of land. The plaintiff gave evidence of a regular assessment of the land as unseated, and a sale and conveyance of it by the treasurer to him for the payment of the taxes of 1822 and 1823, in the name of William Newell.
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ERROR to the Common Pleas of Butler county. This was an action of ejectment by Thomas Dickey against. John Dougherty, for 100 acres of land. The plaintiff gave evidence of a regular assessment of the land as unseated, and a sale and conveyance of it by the treasurer to him for the payment of the taxes of 1822 and 1823, in the name of William Newell. The land in dispute was a part of a survey of 305 acres in the name of John Wright, which had been divided into three parts and claimed by three different persons at one time. One part of 100 acres was claimed by John Negley, and the taxes of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
— The origin of the difficulty in this case, was the assessment of 405 acres, as the content of the warrant in the name of Wright, instead of 305. The assessor was misled probably by the derelict surveys of the settlers which had been run out in 400 acre tracts. But the taxes were in fact paid for all the land in the warrant, thus: Negley paid for the purparty of 100 acres in the name of Carragon; and Mrs Collins paid for 205 acres in the names of Wright the warrantee and Kenedy the settler, which included the purparty in the name of…
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