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9 Sadler 412

Reeves v. Alter

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided February 7, 1888

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1888-02-07

July Term, 1887, No. 171, W. D., before Gordon, Oh. J., Paxson, Sterrett, Green, Clark, and Williams, JJ. Error to the Common Pleas No. 4 of Philadelphia County to review a judgment in favor of the defendant on a case stated. The plaintiff, Joseph M. Reeves, and the defendant, John Joseph Alter, agreed to submit to the court the following facts, as a case stated for its opinion and decision: First.

Affirmed · Decided 1888-02-07

Per Curiam :

¶1It will not do to say that a tax title when lawfully established is not good and marketable; otherwise, the acts of assembly which provide for the sale of real estate for unpaid taxes would be rendered abortive. The assessment, in the case in hand, seems to have been regular; and of this fact the judgment must be regarded as conclusive.

¶2The description of the property was sufficient to give notice to the owner had he made search; there was thus full warrant for the sheriff’s sale, and as that sale appears also to have been regular, the sheriff’s vendee took a good title to the premises in controversy.

¶3The judgment is affirmed.

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