Pennell v. Kennedy Et Ux.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Barnes,

This appeal is from a decree restraining the defendants from operating a gasoline filling station on the south side of West Park Street, a part of the Roosevelt highway, extending, through the borough of Honesdale, in Wayne County. The court found that a gasoline station at this location would constitute a nuisance per se, as the neighborhood is an “exclusive residential section” of the borough. The defendants contended in the court below that the district was not sufficiently developed to acquire a residential charactei*, and that the complainants, who are…