Anderson v. Philadelphia

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearns,

Plaintiff, as owner of the Garden Court Plaza Apartments, 4701-4717 Pine Street, Philadelphia, is seeking, to compel defendants, by means of a writ of mandamus, to remove all the ashes produced from heating the building’s one hundred and thirty-one residential and business units. In her petition, plaintiff averred, inter alia, that the apartment house produced more than four hundred pounds of ashes weekly, and that the City, acting through the Department of Public Works, had refused to remove ashes from the premises in excess of this amount, although the…