Roncace v. Welsh (Yurkovsky)

Opinion by

Parker, J.,

This is an action in trespass to recover damages for breaking and entering plaintiffs’ close and involves the legal principles applicable to an action quare clausum fregit, as employed prior to the Practice Act of 1887: Griffin v. Delaware & H. Co., 257 Pa. 432, 437, 101 A. 750. It concerns the location of the division line between properties of the plaintiffs and the defendants, that of the plaintiffs lying to the west and that of the defendants to the east. Claim was also made for double and treble damages under the provisions of Act of May 8, 1876, P. L. 142 (18 PS…