Deringer v. Augusta Hotel Co.

Citations

• 155 Pa. 609
• 26 A. 769
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1292

Syllabus

<p>Party-wall—Acts of May 7, 1855 and May 25, 1857.</p> <p>The fact that an owner of land or his predecessor in title has built a party wall encroaching four inches on his neighbor’s land, will not, in the absence of an agreement to the contrary, prevent him from subsequently building a wall encroaching to the limit authorized by the Act of May 7, 1855, P. L. 466, which is six and one half inches for a brick wall.</p>