Everhart v. Nesbitt
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 532, Jan. T., 1896, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Lackawanna Co., Noy. T., 1892, No. 363, on verdict for plaintiff. Ejectment for a tract of land consisting of thirty-seven acres, in Ransom township. Before Gunster, J. At the trial plaintiff claimed title under a deed from the treasurer of Lackawanna county, acknowledged on October 16, 1884. The deed was executed in pursuance of a sale for taxes levied, in 1882, upon the land as unseated.
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Appeal, No. 532, Jan. T., 1896, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Lackawanna Co., Noy. T., 1892, No. 363, on verdict for plaintiff. Ejectment for a tract of land consisting of thirty-seven acres, in Ransom township. Before Gunster, J. At the trial plaintiff claimed title under a deed from the treasurer of Lackawanna county, acknowledged on October 16, 1884. The deed was executed in pursuance of a sale for taxes levied, in 1882, upon the land as unseated. The defendants claimed that the land was included in a larger assessment as seated land, and that the taxes on the larger assessment had…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice McCollum,
The land in suit was included in the deed from Paul Aten to Martin Crippen, dated September 26, 1873, and it was all of the Turner tract that the former could convey to the latter. In 1882, and in at least seven of the eight years previous thereto and directly following Aten’s conveyance to Crippen, the land was separately assessed by the proper officer in the unseated list. In the first three years of the period thus defined the .assessed valuation of it was #108, or #3.00 per acre; in the fifth and sixth years, #360, or #10.00 per acre; and in the seventh,…
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