Abrahams v. Krautler

It does not appear from any thing contained in the record whether the wall, the half of whose value is sued for, stands on the dividing line between the plaintiffs and defendant, or whether it is entirely on the land of the plaintiffs. Nothing appearing on the subject, we must take it that the builders of the house occupied by the plaintiffs were not trespassers, and built upon their own land. If this be so, even then we do not see the principle on which the plaintiffs seek to make the defendant liable for one half of the cost of their wall. If the principle insisted upon be a correct one,…