McCloskey v. Kunes

Citations

• 142 Pa. 241
• 21 A. 823
• 1891 Pa. LEXIS 729

Syllabus

<p>(а) Two tracts of unseated land, assessed separately in the original warrantee names, were sold at treasurer’s sale at different dates for unpaid taxes for the same years, and bought in by the county commissioners, the deeds from the treasurer being afterwards delivered on the same day.</p> <p>(б) Ten years later, the county commissioners offered these and other lands, so purchased, at public sale on the same day and by the same description, when they were sold to different purchasers, the purchase moneys paid and deeds delivered afterward, on different days :</p> <p>1. The titles of said purchasers related back to the day of the sales to them, respectively, and the purchaser of the tract first purchased by the county at the treasurer’s sale, will take superior title to an overlapping of the two tracts, subsequently discovered: Kunes v. McCloskey, 115 Pa. 461.</p>