Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co. v. Forster

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Patterson,

This appeal involves a dispute between opposite abutting property owners over the use of a portion of an unopened city street.

In 1907 one William B. Haggart became owner of a tract of land lying south of Gates Street, in Boxborough, Philadelphia. Crossing this tract and intersecting Gates Street at right angles was Shalkop Street, which since 1885 has been designated on the city plan as a street fifty feet wide but has never been legally opened by the city. Haggart prepared a plan by which he divided the tract into fifty-eight numbered lots with streets…