Republic Building & Loan Ass'n v. Webb

Citations

• 12 Pa. Super. 545
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 273

Syllabus

<p>Assumpsit — Liability of owner to mortgagee for taxes paid out of proceeds of sheriff's sale.</p> <p>A mortgagee may maintain assumpsit against the grantee of the mortgagor for the amount of taxes assessed upon the land during the grantee’s ownership and paid out of the proceeds of a sheriffs sale under a judgment on the bond accompanying the mortgage, when the effect of such distribution of the fund is to reduce the sum which otherwise would be distributable to the mortgagee.</p>