Harclerode v. Detwiler

Wright, P. J.,

— Plaintiffs filed a complaint in trespass claiming damages for injury to improvements on their land due to vibration from blasting in defendants’ quarry. We are here passing upon preliminary objections in the nature of (1) a *542demurrer; and (2) a motion for a more specific pleading.

Where blasting injures another’s property by the throwing of debris thereon, liability follows regardless of the method of blasting, because there is a direct trespass: Mulchanock v. The Whitehall Cement Manufacturing Co., 253 Pa. 262. The complaint in the present case does not allege such a trespass,…