Case Name: Lessee of Jacob Young against George Martin
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1798-05
Citations: 2 Yeates 312
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lessee of Jacob Young against George Martin.
Judges: CORAM, SHIPPEN AND YE ATES, JUSTICES.
Reporter: Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Yeates)
Volume: 2
Pages: 312–312

Head Matter:
AT NISI PRIUS, AT SUNBURY,
MAY ASSIZES, 1798.
CORAM, SHIPPEN AND YE ATES, JUSTICES.
Lessee of Jacob Young against George Martin.
Aminute conformity to the law must be proved in sales for non-payment of taxes in order to vest good title.
Ejectment for lands in White Deer township.
The plaintiff claimed under a. deed from the commissioner of the county, for non-payment of the state and.county taxes for 1785 and 1786, amounting to li. 12s. 5d. and costs of advertising and selling, 2i. 8s. 9d. The deed recited the lands to he now or late the property of the widow Johnson, and was granted to John Moore in consideration of 61. 10s. on the 26th August 1788, who afterwards on the 1st April 1792, conveyed to Jacob Moore with general warranty in consideration of 212i. 13s. 6d.
It was admitted that at the time of the commissioners’ sale, the title of the lands was in the heirs of Christopher Johnston, and that there had been no advertisements in the German Newspapers for two months before the day of sale. It was also said, that the lands were rated as the property of William Johnston as unsetteled, though they were then highly improved.
The court said, that either of the objections would be fatal to the commissioners deed, but the want of German advertisements was ■ decisive. Tide Act, passed 16th March 1795, § 46. A minute conformity to°every particular of the several acts of assembly in such cases, and that duly proves to the satisfaction of the court and jury, can alone give a title, where lands have been sold for non-payment of taxes. Uniform and repeated resolutions have clearly settled the law on this subject.
Mr. D. Smith, pro quer.
Messrs. Duncan and Walker, pro def.

Opinion:
The jury gave a verdict for the defendant without leaving the bar.