Jackson, ex rel, Watson v. Esty
New York Supreme Court
This was an action of ejectment, tried at the Essex circuit, in January, 1830, before the Hon. Esek Cowen, one of the circuit judges. The premises in question were sold for taxes, and on the 22d April, 1823, the comptroller of the state executed a deed of the same to M. Wheeler and W. McDonald, pursuant to the sale, and in complyance with a certificate of the sale by him given.
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This was an action of ejectment, tried at the Essex circuit, in January, 1830, before the Hon. Esek Cowen, one of the circuit judges. The premises in question were sold for taxes, and on the 22d April, 1823, the comptroller of the state executed a deed of the same to M. Wheeler and W. McDonald, pursuant to the sale, and in complyance with a certificate of the sale by him given. The title of Wheeler was transferred in June, 1825, and that of McDonald in May, 1827, to E. Watson. At the date of the comptroller’s deed the premises in question were in the actual possession and occupancy of one…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Savage, Ch. J.
By the 17th section of the act for the assessment and collection of taxes, 2 R. L. 516,17, it is made the duty of the comptroller, under certain circumstances, to sell lands for arrears of taxes. Upon the sale he executes a certificate, and at the expiration of two years he gives to the purchaser a deed of the lands purchased, which vests in him an estate of fee simple. By the act of 1819 it is enacted, that in every case of sale and conveyance of taxes thereafter to be made by the comptroller of lands which may at the time of the conveyance be in the actual…
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