Pentony v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Citations

• 231 Pa. 464
• 80 A. 1052
• 1911 Pa. LEXIS 868

Syllabus

<p>Equity — Buildings—Extensions over boundary line — Cornices—Contract.</p> <p>On a bill in equity the court will compel the removal of cornices, window sills, decorative ornaments and foundation walls extending beyond the defendant’s line and protruding over the adjoining property, if the protruding portions of the defendant’s building are parts of a permanent structure built up to the division line, and if it appears that by a recorded agreement between the defendant and plaintiffs’ predecessors in title the defendant agreed to remove on thirty days’ notice all projections of the property extending beyond its line, and that such notice was given.</p>