Washington Borough v. Steiner
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 57, Oct. T., 1903, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Lancaster Co., Equity Docket No. 3, p. 335, on bill in equity in case of Washington Borough v. Albert and Margaret Steiner. Bill in equity for an injunction.
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Appeal, No. 57, Oct. T., 1903, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Lancaster Co., Equity Docket No. 3, p. 335, on bill in equity in case of Washington Borough v. Albert and Margaret Steiner. Bill in equity for an injunction. Livingston, P. J., found the facts to be as follows : The borough of Washington, a corporation located in this county, was duly incorporated by the act of assembly, approved April 13, 1827, P. L. 263, -and its supplements, and subsequently, on December 15, 1873, in pursuance of proceedings in the court of quarter sessions of Lancaster county, it became subject to the…
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Rice, P. J.,
At the time of filing the bill and for some years prior thereto Margaret Steiner, one of the defendants, was the owner of a lot of ground upon which was erected a two story frame dwelling house situated on the east side of Water street in the borough of Washington. The roof of the house extended three or four feet beyond the line of the front foundation wall and covered a balcony and underneath it a porch or veranda, the *396floors of which were laid on the same joists that supported the floors of the living part of the house. The house, as thus constructed, had stood for…
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