Stokely v. Boner
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
On a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of-county, the bill of exceptions and charge of the court below, were returned to this court without the evidence in the cause, and it appeared that this suit was originally brought before a justice of the peace by Barnet Boner, the plaintiff below, against Thomas Stokely, defendant below, to recover the amount of taxes due by Stokely, in the township of Donegal, during the time Boner was collector.
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On a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of-county, the bill of exceptions and charge of the court below, were returned to this court without the evidence in the cause, and it appeared that this suit was originally brought before a justice of the peace by Barnet Boner, the plaintiff below, against Thomas Stokely, defendant below, to recover the amount of taxes due by Stokely, in the township of Donegal, during the time Boner was collector. The case,being brought by appeal into the Court of Common Pleas, a verdict and judgment were there rendered for the plaintiff. The claim to sue in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court, (Tilghman, C. J. being absent,) was delivered by
Gibson, J.
There is nothing in the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, or 6th errors. In the duplicate annexed to a collector’s warrant, the landlord may be charged with the whole tax, without reference to tenants, or a suggestion of an apportionment among them. The assessment may be either in the name of the owner or the tenant; *256and if it be in the name of the owner, with the name of the tenant given as matter of description, and the tax be charged in the duplicate against the owner, leaving out the name of the tenant, the variance…
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