Woodland Oil Company v. Shoup
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Ereos to the Court of Common Pleas of Forest county: Of October Term, 1883, No. 128. Replevin, by the Woodland Oil Company against John Shoup, for about 1,000,000 feet of pine lumber, valued at #10,000. At the trial, before Taylor, P. J., the following facts appeared: On June 10th, 1878, the plaintiffs purchased at a Treasurer’s sale of unseated lands in Forest county for ar-rearages of taxes, a certain tract of unseated timber land in .Kingsley township.
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Ereos to the Court of Common Pleas of Forest county: Of October Term, 1883, No. 128. Replevin, by the Woodland Oil Company against John Shoup, for about 1,000,000 feet of pine lumber, valued at #10,000. At the trial, before Taylor, P. J., the following facts appeared: On June 10th, 1878, the plaintiffs purchased at a Treasurer’s sale of unseated lands in Forest county for ar-rearages of taxes, a certain tract of unseated timber land in .Kingsley township. The taxes an’d costs of sale were $169.50, and the bid for the land was $1,484.50. A deed from the Treasurer to the plaintiffs was duly…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Mercury
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court, October 27th, 1884.
*296The title acquired by a purchaser of lauds at sheriff’s sale, differs very much from one which a purchaser takes in unseated lands on a treasurer’s sale for the non-payment of taxes. In the former case, on the acknowledgment and delivery of the deed, the purchaser tabes a title as full and perfect as the defendant held the same, and it relates back to the day of purchase. In the latter, the title of the former owner is not fully divested until the expiration of two years after the sale. If the purchaser bids more than the amount of the…
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