Tenn v. 889 Associates, Ltd.

The plaintiff appeals the superior court’s dismissal of a bill in equity, by which she sought an injunction against construction of a building and an award of damages. We affirm.

The plaintiff, Sylvia Tenn, owns a six-story office building constructed in 1891 at 907-913 Elm Street in Manchester, known as the Pickering Building. Its south wall is built to the southerly line of its lot. A neighboring building formerly located to the south of the plaintiff’s property was built to the same lot line and to a height of nearly four stories, so that up to that height, the south wall of the Pickering…