Court Opinion

ID: 9904797
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Date Created: 2023-11-27 21:09:27.244771+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:21:28.282854
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
                                EASTERN DISTRICT

 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,                    No. 77 EM 2023
 PENNSYLVANIA GAME COMMISSION

              V.

 THOMAS E. PROCTOR HEIRS TRUST,
 UNDER DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED
 OCTOBER 28, 1980, WHICH IS
 RECORDED IN SULLIVAN COUNTY IN
 BOOK 1106, AT PAGE 879, ITS
 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

 PETITION OF: UNITED STATES COURT
 OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT

                                       ORDER

PER CURIAM

      AND NOW, this 27th day of November, 2023, the Petition for Certification of

Question of State Law is GRANTED. The Court shall consider the following issue:

      Whether, on the record provided here, a1908 tax sale of an unseated parcel
      of land, induced by the surface owner's failure to pay taxes on the estate,
      and made to an agent of the defaulting surface owner, constitutes a title
      wash, thereby divesting the subsurface owner of his interest in the estate?

      The Pennsylvania Game Commission is DESIGNATED as Appellant, and the

Thomas E. Proctor Heirs Trust is DESIGNATED as Appellee.

      The Prothonotary is DIRECTED to establish a briefing schedule and list this case

for oral argument.