Bethlehem v. Druckenmiller

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Schaffer,

The City of Bethlehem filed this bill in equity against defendants, husband and wife, owners of a property in the city, as tenants by the entireties, on which the husband conducts a stone cutting and monumental business. The property is located in a thickly populated residential district within two blocks of the City Hall. The bill alleged that the business as conducted is a public and private nuisance. The prayer was for an injunction forbidding and abating its continuance.

The chancellor, with ample testimony to support him, found that electrical power…