Reading School District v. Consumers' Gas Co.

Endlich, P. J.,

The School District of the City of Reading, being, since Aug. 1, 1906, the owner of the western half of the block bounded by 12th and 13th Streets and Marion and Perry Streets, in the City of Reading, on July 31,1920, acquired title to the remainder of the block, Birch Street running north and south, parallel to and midway between 12th and 13th Streets, and having been duly opened through this square on April 2, 1907, by action of the Council of the City of Reading. Whilst the public records did not disclose the presence of a gas main on Birch Street between Marion and Perry…