A 1988 action to quiet title on 3,665 acres of land in Lycoming County failed to properly name a group of owners of subsurface rights to the land, the Superior Court has ruled, holding that a trial court was right to strike a 1989 default judgment in the case as void ab initio.
A unanimous three-judge panel in Northern Forests II v. Keta Realty held Dec. 4 that Northern Forests II failed to make proper service of process on the original named defendants in the case when it moved to quiet title on the land; instead, it published notices in local newspapers without conducting a proper investigation into the defendants’ whereabouts before seeking a motion for alternative service.
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