Milan v. Bethlehem

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

The several plaintiffs, as owners and occupiers of four separate properties in Lower Saucon Township, Northampton County, respectively sued the City of Bethlehem in trespass upon similar causes of action to recover damages for injury to their properties through the defendant city’s maintenance of a nuisance upon a tract of land which it owns in Lower Saucon Township in proximity to the plaintiffs’ properties. The defendant acquired its property, consisting of eighty-eight acres, in 1942, subsequent to the plaintiffs’ acquisitions. Thenceforth, and continuously…