In re Widening of Walnut Street

Gordon, Jr., J.,

The Ordinance of June 30, 1892, page 309, provided for the widening of Walnut Street, from 5th Street to 22nd Street, in the City of Philadelphia, and forbade any owner thereafter to erect any pew building, or to rebuild or alter the front or add to the height of any building then erected, without making it recede so as to conform to the line established by that ordinance and placed upon the revised city plan by the Bureau of Surveys.

On April 3, 1918, the petitioner altered the front of his building at No. 1312 Walnut Street and receded to the new building-line. For some…