Kauffman v. Dishler

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Horace Stern,

The question concerns the scope of the term “house” as used in a building restriction in a deed.

The parties, being in agreement as to all the essential facts, entered into a stipulation in regard to them. It appears that one S. Leroy Wingate was the owner in 1923 of a large tract of vacant land known as “Wood-crest” in what is now the 50th Ward of the City of Philadelphia. It covers an area of about six city blocks, extending from Vernon Road on the south to Mt. Airy Avenue on the north and from Forrest Avenue on the east to Rodney Street on the west.…