Black v. Pittsburg & Butler Street Railway Co.

Citations

• 34 Pa. Super. 416
• 1907 Pa. Super. LEXIS 150

Syllabus

<p>Deed — Streets—Highways—Plan of lots — Vacation of street — Road law —Injunction—Equity.</p> <p>Where ail owner of land lays out lots and streets thereon, and one of the streets is placed on the municipal plan as a public highway and thereafter the street is vacated by the public authorities, the original owner of the land cannot as against the grantees of his lots or their successors in title, claim absolute ownership in the bed of the street vacated, and exclude the lot owners from its use.</p> <p>A sale of lots according to a plan which shows them to be on a street implies a grant or covenant to the purchaser that the street shall'be forever open to the use of the public and operates as dedication of it to public use,</p>