Tioga Coal Co. v. Supermarkets General Corp.

OPINION ANNOUNCING THE JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Justice.

In September, 1978 Tioga Coal Company filed a complaint in equity against Supermarkets General Corporation seeking title by adverse possession to a strip of land known as Agate Street, located within Supermarkets’ property, and bordering Tioga’s property. Agate Street is a paper street *68forty feet wide which was entered on the plan of the City of Philadelphia but was never opened to the public. It was stricken from the city plan in 1966.

The Chancellor originally found that the applicable statutory holding period for claims of…