Ermentrout v. Stitzel

Citations

• 170 Pa. 540
• 33 A. 109
• 1895 Pa. LEXIS 1434

Syllabus

<p>Alley — Abandonment—Evidence.</p> <p>A person who accepts a deed, with actual as well as constructive notice and knowledge of the existence and location of a private alley designed for the different owners of portions of a tract of land, although the deed contains no reference to the alley, will not be held to have abandoned the alley by reason of such acceptance, or because he abstained from fencing off the alley, or because he did not remove an apple tree which was standing in the space covered by the alley when he took the conveyance, or because he erected a grape arbor partly within the space covered by the alley.</p>