Vollmer's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia: In Equity: No. 95, to July Term 1868. This was a bill filed July 19th 1864, by Malvina A. King against Gottleib Yollmer.
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Appeal from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia: In Equity: No. 95, to July Term 1868. This was a bill filed July 19th 1864, by Malvina A. King against Gottleib Yollmer. The bill set out the ownership by Judith McCall of a messuage and lot of ground 51 feet 4 inches westward from the west side of Eleventh street, on the south side of Chestnut street, Philadelphia, containing in front on Chestnut street 24 feet, and extending of that width southward 101 feet, and then narrowing on the east side 8 feet, and widening on the west side 4 feet, and extending further southward…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, May 11th 1869, by
Read, J.
The Building Acts in England were principally directed to the preservation of dwellings from fire, and the main cause of them arose from the great fire of London in 1666. Two acts were passed in the reign of Charles the Second, and two in the reign of Queen Anne: 6 Anne, c. 31, and 7 Anne, c. 17, from which last acts our provincial legislation of 1721 was partially drawn. The provisions of these acts, so far as relate to fires, are stated by me in The Harmony Fire Company v. Trustees of the Fire Association, 11 Casey 496.
The Act…
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