Rawle v. Renshaw

Citations

• 15 Pa. Super. 488
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 388

Syllabus

<p>Taxes — Personal liability when paid by another — Implied promise.</p> <p>One who has been compelled to pay taxes, for which another is legally and personally liable, may recover the amount so paid from him whose duty it was to pay such taxes.</p> <p>Taxes — Liability of owner of naked legal title.</p> <p>A person who held a naked legal title to property for which he had given an unrecorded declaration of trust of which plaintiff, however, had knowledge, will not be held liable for taxes accruing pending his legal title; the defendant is under no liability for those taxes to the plaintiff who had been legally compelled to pay them; plaintiff’s remedy is against the real owner.</p>