Chambers v. Foley

Citations

• 245 Pa. 164
• 91 A. 350
• 1914 Pa. LEXIS 852

Syllabus

<p>jReal property — Deeds—Building restrictions — Construction — Equity — Injunction.</p> <p>In. a suit in equity to enjoin defendant from erecting a theatre on his land, in alleged violation of a restriction in defendant’s deed providing “that no building shall be erected thereon fronting on said Chester or Springfield avenues, or in Eifty-second street other than dwelling houses,” where defendant claimed that the building came within an exception providing that “this restriction shall not apply to so much of the ground as fronts on Chester avenue from Fifty-second street to Paxon street,” and where it appeared that defendant’s land was situated on Chester avenue between Paxon street and Fifty-second street, but that it fronted on Fifty-second street, the court made no error in granting the relief prayed for.</p>