Brew v. Sharer
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 48, Oct. T., 1909, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Centre Co., Nov. T., 1903, No. 92, on verdict for defendants in case of George T. Brew v. Christian Sharer, et al. Ejectment for land in Snowshoe township.- Before Savidge, P. J., specially presiding. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court.
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Appeal, No. 48, Oct. T., 1909, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Centre Co., Nov. T., 1903, No. 92, on verdict for defendants in case of George T. Brew v. Christian Sharer, et al. Ejectment for land in Snowshoe township.- Before Savidge, P. J., specially presiding. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. The court charged in part as follows: [Construing the act of July 8, 1885, relative to the 'purchasing of the land of the county commissioners, etc., as applicable, according to the words of the act, to any tract of land sold for taxes and bidden in by the.…
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Beaver, J.,
George W. Jackson in his lifetime became the purchaser at the treasurer's sale of unseated lands, August 22, 1894, of a body of lands assessed as “Copenhaver & Whitcomb," surveyed originally upon warrants in the names of Casper Lawrence and Samuel Chestnut, respectively, containing in the aggregate 776 acres. He paid the taxes assessed upon these lands for the years 1894 and 1895. The taxes for 1896 and 1897 being unpaid, they were thereupon sold to the county on June 13, 1898, as assumed by the court below at the trial and acquiesced in here at the argument. The…
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