Schneider v. Sweeney

Crumlish, J.,

Plaintiffs are the owners of premises 500 and 502 West Diamond Street, Philadelphia. Defendant Kane is the purchaser at sheriff sale on an unpaid tax lien of premises 504 West Diamond Street; the Sweeneys were predecessors in title to Kane. Plaintiffs complain that the Sweeneys allowed the soil pipe in their property to be filled with refuse, debris, foreign matters, and objects, causing the same to clog and overflow with resultant damage to property stored in the cellar of their property; that plaintiffs had been required to open the sewer and to remedy the condition at their…