Dyer v. Philadelphia

Per Curiam,

A bill in equity was filed by plaintiff, as a citizen and taxpayer of Philadelphia, against the municipality and certain of its officials, the commissioners of Fairmount Park, and the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co., praying for a mandatory injunction compelling defendants to restore conditions which existed in Logan Square before its recent reconstruction in connection with the Parkway improvement.

The bill describes the bounds of Logan Square and avers the land was dedicated to the public by William Penn in 1683, “for the like uses as the Moorfields are in London,” and that ever…