Ladner v. Siegel

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Sadler,

Twenty-one property owners, residing adjacent to the block bounded by 47th, 48th, Spruce and Pine Streets, in the City of Philadelphia, filed a bill to restrain the construction and operation of a public garage thereon. One of the defendants, Siegel, had acquired, in 1917, eleven contiguous tracts of land, covering the locus in quo, and subdivided them into lots. Of these, the complainants had become owners of some, by deeds which stipulated that no garage, other than a private one, should be constructed on the land purchased. In all, fifty-six semidetached…