Long v. Phillips
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 90, Jan. T., 1913, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Huntingdon Co., May T., 1912, No. 24, on verdict for defendant in case of A. L. Long, H. F. Deitz and David Hoover v. J. H. Phillips. Trespass to recover damages for cutting and carrying away growing timber. Before Woods, P. J. The plaintiffs claimed title through a sale for taxes due on unseated lands, and assessed after the passage of the Act of June 4,1901, P. L. 364. The defendant had a paper title.
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Appeal, No. 90, Jan. T., 1913, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Huntingdon Co., May T., 1912, No. 24, on verdict for defendant in case of A. L. Long, H. F. Deitz and David Hoover v. J. H. Phillips. Trespass to recover damages for cutting and carrying away growing timber. Before Woods, P. J. The plaintiffs claimed title through a sale for taxes due on unseated lands, and assessed after the passage of the Act of June 4,1901, P. L. 364. The defendant had a paper title. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict for defendant by direction of the court, and . judgment thereon.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mestrezat,
The single question in this case is whether the Ad; *249of June 4, 1901, P. L. 364, relating to the practice and procedure for the filing, collection and extent of tax and municipal claims repealed the prior acts of assembly regulating the practice and procedure in collecting taxes on unseated lands in the Commonwealth. The learned court below held that such was the effect of the Act of 1901 which necessarily resulted in a verdict and judgment in the present case for the defendant. The plaintiffs have taken this appeal.
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