Mayer's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree at Nisi Prius: In Equity: No. 5, to January Term 1871. The proceedings in this case were commenced by bill filed on the 22d of September 1870, by John Mayer against Robert F. Simpson.
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Appeal from the decree at Nisi Prius: In Equity: No. 5, to January Term 1871. The proceedings in this case were commenced by bill filed on the 22d of September 1870, by John Mayer against Robert F. Simpson. The bill averred that the plaintiff, on the 25th of February 1870, became the owner of a lot of ground on the west side of Ninth street, 126 feet north of Arch street, Philadelphia, with old buildings on it, and shortly afterwards removed the buildings preparatory to the erection of a large store on the lot; that the defendant was the owner of a lot at the north-west corner of Ninth and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, February 13th 1873, by
Read, C. J.
Robert F. Simpson owns a lot of ground at the north-west corner of Arch and Ninth streets, extending in front on Arch street forty-eight feet, and in length or depth on Ninth street one hundred and twenty-six feet, and John Mayer owns a lot adjoining it on the north, eighteen feet on Ninth street by forty-eight feet in depth. The defendant erected in 1870 a building, *168intended for a museum and theatre, covering the whole of his lot, the north wall of which was an eighteen-inch brick party-wall, which by law should be six…
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