Stewart v. Trevor
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Payette county: No. 65, to October and November Term 1867. This was an action of ejectment, brought October 27th 1865, by John B. Trevor, Sarah A. Trevor and George N. Eckert and Emily T. his wife in her right, against David Springer and Andrew Stewart, for a lot of one quarter of an acre in Uniontown. The plaintiffs are the children and heirs of John B. Trevor the elder, deceased.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Payette county: No. 65, to October and November Term 1867. This was an action of ejectment, brought October 27th 1865, by John B. Trevor, Sarah A. Trevor and George N. Eckert and Emily T. his wife in her right, against David Springer and Andrew Stewart, for a lot of one quarter of an acre in Uniontown. The plaintiffs are the children and heirs of John B. Trevor the elder, deceased. They gave in evidence a shexiff’s sale of the property in dispute to the decedent and Alexander McClurg for $900 : — the sheriff’s deed was acknowledged March 5th 1830 ;— also…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 7th 1868, by
Strong, J.
The defendants in the court below rested their defence upon a tax title derived from a treasurer’s sale in June 1858, for the taxes of the years 1853,1854,1855 and 1856. The property sold had been seated. It was a house and lot in the borough of Union, and it had been occupied for years, and down to 1853 or 1854, when it ceased to be inhabited. It was assessed to Trevor & McClurg the owners as seated, during all the years from 1841 to 1858 inclusive, but after the year 1853, as already noticed, it was unoccupied, the house…
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