King v. Mount Vernon Building Assn.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 8, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term, 1884, No. 88. Assumpsit, by the Mount Vernon Building Association against Miles King, to recover the amount of taxes for the years 1879, 1881 and 1882, paid by the plaintiff, which it was claimed the defendant was personally responsible for by virtue of his ownership of the property taxed, during those years. Pleas, non-assumpsit, payment with leave, etc.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 8, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term, 1884, No. 88. Assumpsit, by the Mount Vernon Building Association against Miles King, to recover the amount of taxes for the years 1879, 1881 and 1882, paid by the plaintiff, which it was claimed the defendant was personally responsible for by virtue of his ownership of the property taxed, during those years. Pleas, non-assumpsit, payment with leave, etc. On the trial, before Ludlow, P. J., the following facts appeared: For several years prior to 1879, Joseph B. Hancock was the owner of premises No. 1728 Girard…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
The taxes for 1879 were assessed against Joseph B. Hancock, who was at that time the owner of the premises No. 1728 Girard Avenue. Planeock conveyed to Miles King on the fourteenth of June 1879, and on the seventeenth of the same month King executed a deed for the same premises in favor of Joel C. Hancock. The latter deed was not recorded and does not appear to have been delivered. It remained in the hands of Henry Haines the conveyancer, and was by him produced upon the trial below.
The court below held that King was personally responsible for the taxes of 1879, though he held the title but…
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