Moody v. Allegheny Valley Land Trust

OPINION BY

McCAFFERY, J.:

¶ 1 The present appeal, from an order granting summary judgment, arises from a long-standing dispute concerning whether Consolidated Rail Corporation (“Conrail”) had abandoned a railroad right-of-way in Armstrong County (the “County”) and, if so, whether the property interest in the right-of-way had reverted to the servient property owners (the Appellees herein). Specifically, we must review whether the trial court correctly determined that Conrail had abandoned the right-of-way under Pennsylvania property law, resulting in a reversion of the property to Appellees,…