Haitsch v. Duffy
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Bill to Remove a Cloud from Title to Land. On April 2, 1892, Thomas Duffy the defendant purchased a lot of land in the city of Wilmington, fronting on Front Street, adjoining a lot on the northeast comer of Front and Madison Streets, both of which lots extend in a northerly direction parallel with Madison Street to Christiana Street. • Erected on the lot then acquired by Duffy was a two-story frame dwelling house.
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Bill to Remove a Cloud from Title to Land. On April 2, 1892, Thomas Duffy the defendant purchased a lot of land in the city of Wilmington, fronting on Front Street, adjoining a lot on the northeast comer of Front and Madison Streets, both of which lots extend in a northerly direction parallel with Madison Street to Christiana Street. • Erected on the lot then acquired by Duffy was a two-story frame dwelling house. On April 30, 1892, Duffy purchased from Mary Quinby the comer property, consisting of a lot sixteen feet six inches wide on Front Street, with a one-story brick building erected…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
It appears, in brief, that while owning two adjoining lots, A and B (lot A being subject to a mortgage made by the defendant), the defendant erected a brick wall, part of which, viz., nine inches thereof, is on lot A. and the rest, four inches, is on lot B. This wall is the outside wall of a three-story brick building, extending to the rear end of the lot. In the face of the wall there are twenty windows overlooking lot A, which had and still has erected on it a bri'ck building only one story high and extending only part way back towards the rear of the lot. By legal…
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