Robinson v. Williams
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Union county. This was an action of ejectment for four hundred and twenty-four acres of land, the original title to which, had been in Christian Yantzer, as whose property it was sold in 1816, by the treasurer of Northumberland county, of which Union had been a part, as unseated land for taxes due and unpaid, for the years from. 1805 to 1813 inclusive; and it was then purchased by Elisha Geiger; and this action was brought by his heirs-at-law,…
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ERROR to the common pleas of Union county. This was an action of ejectment for four hundred and twenty-four acres of land, the original title to which, had been in Christian Yantzer, as whose property it was sold in 1816, by the treasurer of Northumberland county, of which Union had been a part, as unseated land for taxes due and unpaid, for the years from. 1805 to 1813 inclusive; and it was then purchased by Elisha Geiger; and this action was brought by his heirs-at-law, against John Williams and Henry Kister, who were the then owners of the original title, which they had purchased in 1809.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
Tire facts of this case are stated in the charge of the court, and the principal questions of law which have been argued here, upon the errors assigned, are first, whether a treasu*285rer’s sale for taxes of lands unseated at the time of the assessment of the tax, but seated before the sale, is valid. Second, whether the authority to sell was duly exercised by the treasurer of Northumberland county, the lands lying in Hnion county. Third, whether the possession by the defendants* improvements made, and other special circumstances of the case…
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