Frank v. McCrossin

Citations

• 33 Pa. Super. 93
• 1907 Pa. Super. LEXIS 249

Syllabus

<p>Ground rents — Taxes—Payment—Assumpsit.</p> <p>Where an owner of land charged with a ground rent fails to pay the taxes assessed on the land, and subsequently defaults on the ground rent, and the owner of the ground rent obtains judgment for the arrears of rent, and at a sheriff’s sale under the judgment buys in the land, and in order to save the property, pays „the arrears of taxes, he may in an action of assumpsit against the former owner recover the amount of the taxes which the former owner should have paid..</p>