Smith v. Alderson

SPAETH, Judge:

This is an appeal from a final decree enjoining appellants from parking “their automobiles other than for brief emergency periods or other uses inextricably connected with the general right of the public to travel” on a narrow strip of appellees’ land abutting a state highway and serving as a public right-of-way onto appellees’ premises.

The lower court made the following findings of fact:

1. The plaintiffs [appellees] are the owners of property situate in North Strabane Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania purchased from Andrew J. Fer*389gus, et ux. by deed dated April 19, 1973,…