Stark v. Shupp
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Wyoming county: Of January Term, 1886, No. 148. Ejectment brought by George W. Stark against E. J. Shupp and S. A. Shupp for about one hundred acres of land in Lemon township, Wyoming county. Plea, not guilty.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Wyoming county: Of January Term, 1886, No. 148. Ejectment brought by George W. Stark against E. J. Shupp and S. A. Shupp for about one hundred acres of land in Lemon township, Wyoming county. Plea, not guilty. The following are the facts as they appeared on the trial before Sittser, P. J.: Plaintiffs title is founded on a tax sale made by the. treasurer of Wyoming county on the 12th of June, 1882. From 1872 to 1877 Henry D. Beebe was in possession of one hundred acres in Lemon township under a contract. He resided in a house on the land until Deeenfber,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
This was an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiff, George W. Stark, for the recovery of a certain piece of land, situated in the township of Lemon, county of Wyoming. He claimed title by virtue of a tax sale, made by the treasurer of the said county under the 41st section of the Act of the 29th of April, 1844. In order to establish his right to the possession claimed, under the Act above stated, it behooved the plaintiff to show the treasurer’s authority to make the sale, and to this end it ought to have appeared that all material conditions and prerequisites had been complied with; as…
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