Philadelphia Scoop & Scale Manufacturing Co. v. Silberman

Per Curiam,

Plaintiff filed its bill for a decree requiring defendant, who owns land adjoining plaintiff’s land on 5th Street in Philadelphia, to take down the one-story wall erected by defendant within the party wall zone and about one or one and one-half inches from the wall of plaintiff’s building. The bill was not filed until after defendant’s wall was completed although plaintiff saw it being constructed from day to day. Plaintiff also claimed damages to the contents of his building alleged to have resulted from rain, snow and ice lodging between the walls of their buildings.

The learned…