Cranmer v. Hall
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Common Pleas of Bradford county. Robert C. Hall and Gordon F. Mason against Samuel Cranmer, Jun. and others. This was an action of ejectment for two tracts of land, containing 800 acres, to which the defendants took defence, for one of the tracts. The original title was indisputably in the plaintiffs.
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ERROR to the Common Pleas of Bradford county. Robert C. Hall and Gordon F. Mason against Samuel Cranmer, Jun. and others. This was an action of ejectment for two tracts of land, containing 800 acres, to which the defendants took defence, for one of the tracts. The original title was indisputably in the plaintiffs. The defendants claimed by virtue of añ assessment of the land for taxes for the years 1813 to 1817 inclusive; a regular sale of it by the treasurer, in 1818, to the commissioner's, and by them regularly charged with taxes until 1826, when it was sold to John Irvine, who then went…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
— The principal point of inquiry, upon the trial, appears to have been, whether at the time the taxes, for which the land was sold, were assessed, viz. from the year 1813 until 1817, inclusive, and particularly the latter year, the property in controversy was a seated tract. It seems to have been conceded that at one time it was a seated tract; but it was insisted by the defendants that it had been abandoned by the owners, and that in the year 1817, particularly, it was unseated, and as such was properly sold for payment of the tax of that…
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