Bicking v. Florey's Brick Works
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 4, Oct. T., 1912, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Chester Co., No. 552, in equity, in case of Mary P. Bicking, Widow, and Samuel P. Bicking, Executor of S. Austin Bicking, deceased, v. Florey’s Brick Works, James Florey and William McClure, Jr. Bill in equity for an injunction.
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Appeal, No. 4, Oct. T., 1912, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Chester Co., No. 552, in equity, in case of Mary P. Bicking, Widow, and Samuel P. Bicking, Executor of S. Austin Bicking, deceased, v. Florey’s Brick Works, James Florey and William McClure, Jr. Bill in equity for an injunction. Butler, J., found the facts to be as follows: The common source of title of the respective properties of the plaintiffs and defendants is Thomas Downing who in 1750 owned a tract of 561 acres, which included the mill now owned by the plaintiffs, its race, and all the land now owned by the defendants.…
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Head, J.,
The plaintiffs in Their bill prayed for an injunction to restrain the defendants from the commission or continuance of an alleged permanent trespass by the occupation of a portion of their land over which they had erected a bridge or causeway. The plaintiffs are the owners of a tract of land upon which is a mill fed by a mill race. They averred that they were the owners of the fee in the soil traversed by the mill race. The defendants denied that the plaintiffs had more than an easement to have the water flow through the mill race to the mill, and asserted that they…
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