Fish v. Brown
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Jlrmsttong county. This was an action of ejectment for a tract of land, by Joseph Brown against James Fish, the facts of which are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
~In Shaeffer v. M’Cabe, 2 Watts 421, it was held that a clearing over of a few feet or yards on another tract, by an adjoining owner, would not talse from such tract the character of unseated, and prevent it from being liable to assessment and sale for taxes; but that the cultivation of several acres fixes the denomination of the whole tract," and charges the person of the cultivator with the *442payment of the taxes, so that a sale of the traet for the taxes is, in the latter case, unauthorised. The plaintiff, in the present instance, claimed…
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