Craft v. Yeaney
Citations
- 66 Pa. 210
- 1870 Pa. LEXIS 295
Syllabus
<p>1. Calls in a deed are always to be controlled by lines on the ground.</p> <p>2. Heath sold a subdivision of a warrant, marking the east line on the ground, west of the east line of the warrant; the deed called for the east line of the warrant as the boundary. Held, that the call was controlled by the marked line.</p> <p>3. Heath brought ejectment for the portion — which was unseated — east of the subdivision and recovered a verdict and judgment; a habere was not issued. Held, that he might maintain trespass on his constructive possession.</p> <p>4. Caldwell v. Walters, 10 Harris 280, distinguished.</p>
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- explaining that the Uniformity Clause requires uniformity within the territorial limits of the [a]uthority levying the tax
- school district’s tax invalid where, without reasonable justification, taxpayers residing in different counties were charged different amounts for precisely the same educational services
- school district's tax invalid where, without reasonable justification, taxpayers residing in different counties were charged different amounts for precisely the same educational services
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Judges: Agnew, Read, Sharswood, Thompson, Williams
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