Godding v. Cooper

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

In this action in ejectment a jury trial was waived and the late Allison D. Wade, P.J., who tried the case, found in favor of the plaintiffs, for the land described in the writ. The action involved the title to 48% acres of tract number 669 in Cherry township in Warren County. A contest over eight acres of the same tract was before us in Godding v. Swanson, 173 Pa. Superior Ct. 575, 98 A. 2d 210. Here as in the Swanson case the plaintiffs claimed principally under a paper title and the defendants relied upon treasurer’s deeds under sales for taxes.

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