City of Philadelphia v. Scott
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 4, of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1879, No. 9. Seire facias sur claim for registered taxes issued by the City of Philadelphia against Freeman Scott, owner or reputed owner.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 4, of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1879, No. 9. Seire facias sur claim for registered taxes issued by the City of Philadelphia against Freeman Scott, owner or reputed owner. The claim was for taxes against the whole of Scott’s property at Fifteenth and Montgomery Avenue, containing about ten acres of land, for the years 1866-9. The claim was for $4043.51. It was filed March 16th 1871. On November 1st 1871, a writ of scire facias sur tax claim issued, but was returned nihil habet. An alias scire facias was then issued on November 17th 1871,…
1Opinion of the Court
The judgment of tho Supreme Court was entered March 24th 1879,
2Per curiam 1
What is meant by the words “ duly proceeded in to judgment” in the first section of the “ Act relating to registered taxes and municipal claims in the county of Philadelphia,” passed March 11th 1846, Pamph. L. 114, was settled by the construction which has been given to tho second section of the Act of March *2820th 1827, 9 Sm. L. 304. Where no judgment is obtained until more than five years after the issuing of the scire facias, the lien of the original judgment is lost: Fulton’s Estate, 1 P. F. Smith 204. “ When,” says Mr. Justice…
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