Easter v. Dundalk Holding Co.

This is the fifth episode in the saga of the legal battles that ensued as a consequence of the Dundalk Holding Company having encroached upon a strip of land — 132 feet long and varying from 36/100th to 95/100ths of a foot in width — owned by Andrew J. Easter when the holding company innocently erected thereon a part of one of the side walls of a moving picture theater after it had acquired title to its land in August of 1945.

The first episode, an action of ejectment brought by the invaded owner against the encroaching owner, resulted in the jury finding encroachment and the entry of a…