Dunlap v. Reardon
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 147, Oct. T., 1903, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1902, No. 933, on verdict for plaintiff.in case of Jennie C. Dunlap v. James Reardon. Ejectment for land in the twenty-eighth- ward of the city of Philadelphia. Before Audenried, J. At the trial it appeared that prior to May 7, 1883, Joseph Allison was the owner of a lot of ground on Indian Queen lane, the width of which was fifty feet.
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Appeal, No. 147, Oct. T., 1903, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1902, No. 933, on verdict for plaintiff.in case of Jennie C. Dunlap v. James Reardon. Ejectment for land in the twenty-eighth- ward of the city of Philadelphia. Before Audenried, J. At the trial it appeared that prior to May 7, 1883, Joseph Allison was the owner of a lot of ground on Indian Queen lane, the width of which was fifty feet. On this land there were built two adjoining houses. On May 7, 1883, Allison conveyed to James Reardon one half of the lot with the house erected thereon, and on…
1Opinion of the Court
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Morrison, J.,
A comparison of the written evidence of title in this case with the same papers in Medara v. Du Bois, 187 Pa. 431, leaves us in no doubt that the division or party wall, so-called, separating the two brick houses, forms the dividing line between the plaintiff’s and defendant’s lots so far as this wall extends, to wit: between the houses. The location of this party wall is not involved in this suit except in so far as it affects the line between the parties from the rear end of said wall to the rear of the lots. It is unnecessary to decide the point, but it may be that a…
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- Rook v. GreenewaldSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1903
- Hagey v. DetweilerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1860
- Medara v. Du BoisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1898
- Kellum v. SmithSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1870
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