Coward v. Llewellyn
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 192, Jan. T., 1908, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Luzerne Co., Feb. T., 1901, No. 4, on bill in equity in case of Thomas R. Coward et al. v. George J. Llewellyn. Bill in equity for an injunction. Before Little, J., specially presiding. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case.
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Appeal, No. 192, Jan. T., 1908, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Luzerne Co., Feb. T., 1901, No. 4, on bill in equity in case of Thomas R. Coward et al. v. George J. Llewellyn. Bill in equity for an injunction. Before Little, J., specially presiding. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. The court entered the following decree: Now July 7,1903, this cause came on to be heard and was argued by counsel, and upon consideration thereof it is ordered, adjudged and decreed as follows, to wit : 1. That the defendants be restrained by perpetual injunction from obstructing, and the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
The decree in this case turns on the fact, whether Black-man’s alley in the borough of West Pittston is thirty feet wide or only twenty feet.
Theodore Strong in 1850 became the owner of ninety acres of land adjoining West Pittston borough, which he soon after conveyed to the West Pittston Land Association, a land improvement company. This company in 1856 plotted the land in streets and alleys; one of the alleys known as Blackman’s alley was on the plan twenty feet wide. Subsequently this land was all incorporated with and formed a part of the borough. No official map…
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