Haley v. American Agricultural Chemical Co.

Citations

• 217 Pa. 354
• 66 A. 559
• 1907 Pa. LEXIS 715

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and tenant — Lease—Wharf property — Cost of cleaning dock— Repairs.</p> <p>Where land abutting on a navigable river is described in a lease as exactly coterminous with a pier-constructed thereon, and as extending into the river as far as the port warden’s low water line, and the lease contains an additional grant of wharf property extending into the river from the previously described premises from port warden’s low water line to port warden’s pier headline, “together with all water rights appurtenant thereto,” the landlord cannot compel the tenant to pay the cost of cleaning the adjoining dock required under the law to be paid by the owner of the pier.</p>