Canole v. Allen

Citations

• 28 Pa. Super. 244
• 1905 Pa. Super. LEXIS 175

Syllabus

<p>Tax sale — Deeds—Description—Duty of purchaser at tax sale.</p> <p>A purchaser at a tax sale by commissioners must show the several jurisdictional steps necessary to vest the title in the commissioners, the public sale by the commissioners to himself, and the execution and delivery of the deeds'by the several officers.</p> <p>In an action of ejectment where the defendant claims title by reason of a tax sale, the defense must fail, where there is nothing in the return of the sale, or in the deeds from the commissioners offered by the defendant, to identify the land in controversy as having been sold for taxes.</p> <p>After a tax sale a deed to the commissioners is absolutely necessary to vest the title in the county, and such deed must be acknowledged before a justice of the peace.</p>