Reinboth v. Zerbe Run Improvement Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Northumberland county. This was an ejectment brought by Joseph D. Reinboth, executor of Jacob Von Neida, deceased, against The Zerbe Run and Shamokin Improvement Company, to recover the one undivided half of 150 acres of land. The plaintiff showed the title out of the Commonwealth, and in one Frederick Haas, who in 1811, conveyed it to Elisha Geiger.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Northumberland county. This was an ejectment brought by Joseph D. Reinboth, executor of Jacob Von Neida, deceased, against The Zerbe Run and Shamokin Improvement Company, to recover the one undivided half of 150 acres of land. The plaintiff showed the title out of the Commonwealth, and in one Frederick Haas, who in 1811, conveyed it to Elisha Geiger. In 1817, Geiger acknowledged in writing the receipt for the purchase, and that he held the one-half in trust for the plaintiff’s testator. This instrument was recorded in 1831, and upon it the plaintiff claimed to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Armstrong, J.
Joseph D. Reinboth, executor of Jacob Von Neida,- deceased, claimed title to the undivided half of a tract of land, in Zerbe township, warranted in the name of “ B. F. Young,” containing 150 acres. The regularity of the title from the Commonwealth to Von Neida seems not to have been contested. But the defendants allege that, that title has been divested by a treasurer’s sale for taxes. And in support of this, offer the sheriff’s deed-book, showing the acknowledgment by George Weiser, treasurer of Northumberland county, on the 20th of…
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