Hollinger v. Devling
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Centre county: Of January Term, 1884, No. 165. Ejectment, brought to April term, 1883, by Joseph Devling against Amos Hollinger, for a tract of laud situate in Rush township, Céntre count}'', containing 433 A.,153 P., surveyed in the warrantee name of Jacob Myer. Plea, not guilty.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Centre county: Of January Term, 1884, No. 165. Ejectment, brought to April term, 1883, by Joseph Devling against Amos Hollinger, for a tract of laud situate in Rush township, Céntre count}'', containing 433 A.,153 P., surveyed in the warrantee name of Jacob Myer. Plea, not guilty. On the trial, before Host, P. J., the plaintiff, after showing title out of the commonwealth, put in evidence the records of the commissioner’s office, showing that the tract in question was duly assessed as unseated land for the taxes of 1870 and 1871, owner Amos Hollinger,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Green
We would gladly relieve the defendant in this case from his dilemma, if it were possible to do so. But we are quite unable to discover any method bj*- which this can be done, consistently with legal requirements which are so plain and so directly applicable to the undisputed facts of the case, that they can not be disregarded. The whole case is in a nutshell. The tract of land in question, known as the “Jacob Meyer” tract, was sold for taxes on June 10, 1872. It was purchased at the tax sale by John Irwin, Jr., who afterwards sold it to the plaintiff.' The defendant, Hollinger, was the owner…
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