Pittsburg Hunting Club v. Snyder
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 207, Oct. T., 1911, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Huntingdon Co., Sept. T., 1909, No. 34, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Pittsburg Hunting Club v. H. C. Snyder. Ejectment for land in West township.
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Appeal, No. 207, Oct. T., 1911, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Huntingdon Co., Sept. T., 1909, No. 34, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Pittsburg Hunting Club v. H. C. Snyder. Ejectment for land in West township. Before Woons, P. J. At the trial the plaintiff presented the following points: 1. The following facts adduced at the trial are undisputed: The lands for the recovery of which this action is brought, were regularly assessed in the commissioners’ office of Huntingdon county as shown by the records therein as “seated” for the year 1900. The defendant’s title is derived from a…
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Head, J.,
When in 1894 the present plaintiffs bought the tract of land in dispute it was undoubtedly seated land. There were situate thereon a log house, barn and other buildings. A portion of the land had been cleared, fenced and put under cultivation. It was then and continued to be, down to and including the year 1900, regularly assessed as seated land, and the taxes levied were all paid by the owners until the present dispute arose as to the road tax for the year 1900. In that year, as in all the preceding years, the land was regularly assessed as seated land in the seated land…
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