Golen v. Union Corp.

OLSZEWSKI, Judge:

This appeal presents the question of whether private nuisance provides a remedy for a landowner who cannot sell his or her property because of neighboring environmental contamination, when the contamination does not otherwise affect the landowner’s use of the property. The trial court granted appellees’ motion for summary judgment, finding that private nuisance does not provide a remedy. We affirm.

Both appellants’ and appellees’ property are located in an industrial section of Philadelphia. During the 1970’s, appellees’ property was used for recycling electrical transformers,…