Jenks v. Wright
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Clearfield county: No. 146, to July Term 1868. This was an action of ejectment brought November 5th 1862, by Mary H. Jenks and Anna H. Jenks, by their guardian George W. Andrews, against A. K. Wright and others, for a tract of 63 acres of land in Penn township. The plaintiffs are children and heirs at law of D. B. Jenks, deceased.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Clearfield county: No. 146, to July Term 1868. This was an action of ejectment brought November 5th 1862, by Mary H. Jenks and Anna H. Jenks, by their guardian George W. Andrews, against A. K. Wright and others, for a tract of 63 acres of land in Penn township. The plaintiffs are children and heirs at law of D. B. Jenks, deceased. On the trial May 26th 1868, before Linn, P. J., it appeared that the title to the land in dispute was in Joseph Boone in 1837, was sold by him December 2d 1837 to David Hewitt, and by him to Elijah Heath on the 26th of January…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, May 11th 1869, by
Thompson, C. J.
By the 7th section of the Act of 13th March 1815, the county commissioners of the several counties were authorized to sell at public sale and convey any lands bid in by them at *413treasurer’s sales of unseated lands, under the authority of the 6th section of the act, and remaining unredeemed, after the lapse of five years; hut the kind and length of notice to be given preceding such sales was not prescribed by the act. But afterwards, on the 29th March 1827, a supplement to the Act of 13th March 1815 was passed which, among…
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