Cronin v. Dougherty

Opinion by

Linn, J.:

This is a proceeding under the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act: June 18, 1923, P. L. 849. The parties were the owners of adjoining four-story brick dwelling houses, numbered 1738 and 1740 Sansom Street in Philadelphia. The. partition wall between the buildings was a party wall, and extended from the ground up to a point above the third floor, but not to the roof, leaving an open space between the two houses on the fourth floor; the party wall was “made of wood, laths, plaster and paper;” the hous'es were built at least fifty years ago, and complied with the law of that…