Yeager v. City of Pittsburgh

Opinion by

Linn, J.,

The plaintiff owns a house and lot in Baldwin Township, Allegheny County, bounded on the north by Beck’s Bun, which divides the township from the City of Pittsburgh, one-half of the Bun being within the city. The city maintains that Bun as an open sewer to carry off sewage (storm or surface water and sanitary sewage) discharged into it from lands in the City of Pittsburgh; it also carries away sewage from Baldwin Township and other municipalities on the other side, altogether taking the surface water from an area of about 2,800 acres. At some points adjoining Beck’s Bun on…