Legal Opinion

Essick v. Shillam

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 25, 1943No. Appeal, 39PublishedCited by 30 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearns,

This bill was filed by residents of Centre Avenue and North Fourth Street, in the City of Reading, to restrain defendants from erecting and operating a cash-and-carry store, or super-market, and parking lot for patrons of the store, at the corner of Fourth and Greenwich Streets in that city.

Greenwich Street runs east and west; Third and Fourth Streets run north and south, intersecting Greenwich Street at right angles. Centre Avenue, a main thoroughfare, crosses Fourth Street diagonally immediately north of the intersection at Greenwich Street. Windsor…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Breinig v. Allegheny CountySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
  2. Pennsylvania Co. v. Sun Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1927
  3. Perrin's App. Bd. of Adjustment's App.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1931
  4. Phillips v. DonaldsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1920
  5. White v. Old York Road Country ClubSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1935

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3Cited by30 opinions

  1. Philadelphia Electric Company v. Hercules, Inc. And Gould, Inc. Appeal of Hercules, IncCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1985
  2. Waschak v. MoffatSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1954
  3. Commonwealth Trust Co. v. SzaboSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1957
  4. 55 Motor Avenue Co. v. Liberty Industrial Finishing Corp.District Court, E.D. New York · 1994
  5. Coffin v. Old Orchard Development Corp.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1962

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