Philadelphia v. Watt Et Ux.

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,.

Defendants have owned a parcel of land in Philadelphia fronting on Olney Avenue for twenty-eight years. During all of that time a strip sixteen feet wide across the rear of their lot has been a part of a private driveway connecting Fifteenth Street with Chew Street. Under date of March 26, 1943 the Board of Health of the City of Philadelphia gave defendants written notice of a resolution adopted by it to the effect that, because of improper grading and defective paving, the driveway had been “declared to be a nuisance, having a tendency to endanger and be prejudicial to…