Krocker v. Westmoreland Planing Mill Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

This bill was filed to restrain as a nuisance the operation of defendant’s saw- and planing mill at Eleventh and Westmoreland streets, Philadelphia. The plaintiffs are George W. Krocker and forty-one other resident property owners of the immediate neighborhood. Testimony was taken and the chancellor, approved by the court in banc, found the controlling facts in favor of plaintiffs; and from final decree, granting the relief prayed for, defendant brought this appeal.

In 1919 appellant bought land, then occupied by dwelling houses, and proceeded to erect its (mill…