McGurk v. Piecuch

Brown, Jr., J.,

I. Statement of the Pleadings

This is a bill in equity to have defendant, the owner of the premises adjoining plaintiff’s, ordered to restore the joint drainage system between plaintiff’s and defendant’s houses which defendant disconnected and to pay damages for the loss caused plaintiff by defendant’s having severed the connection. The facts alleged in support of this desired relief are that since the year 1900 the sewage and waste pipe from the house now owned by plaintiff had run into the sewage pipe on defendant’s property leading into the city sewer in the street; that a…