Dubois v. Hepburn
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the circuit court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania. The plaintiff in error instituted an ejectment for a tract of land situated in Lycoming county, in the State of Pennsylvania; and exhibited a title, regularly deduced, under a patent granted to Joseph Fearon, dated 19th September 1796. The title claimed by the defendant was derived from a purchase at a sale of the land made by the treasurer of the county of Lycoming, on the 12th of June…
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ERROR to the circuit court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania. The plaintiff in error instituted an ejectment for a tract of land situated in Lycoming county, in the State of Pennsylvania; and exhibited a title, regularly deduced, under a patent granted to Joseph Fearon, dated 19th September 1796. The title claimed by the defendant was derived from a purchase at a sale of the land made by the treasurer of the county of Lycoming, on the 12th of June 1826, for county and road taxes, regularly assessed on the same; the county taxes prior to the 1st of February 1825,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baldwin
The land in controversy was granted to Joseph Fearon by the eommonweath of Pennsylvania, by patent bearing date the 1.9th April 1794, from whom the plaintiff deduced a regular chain of title to himself. The defendant claimed in virtue of a sale for taxes, on the 12th June 1826, by the treasurer of Lycoming county; who, by his deed dated 15th July 1826, conveyed the land to the defendant.
No question arose in the court below as to the original title of the plaintiff, or the regularity of the sale for taxes ; the case turned upon the redemption of the land, pursuant to the fourth section of the…
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