Saunders v. Wellner

Citations

• 59 Pa. Super. 433
• 1915 Pa. Super. LEXIS 95

Syllabus

<p>Deeds — Covenants—Alleys—Extension of alley — Building line.</p> <p>Where an owner conveys by ground rent deed an unimproved city lot contiguous to his own on which is a dwelling not built up to the building line, and gives to the grantee a right to build over an alley on the grantor’s lot, and the grantee covenants to build on the lot conveyed “on a line in front with the grantor’s adjoining lot,” the fee in the alley remains in the grantor, and the latter has the right to extend the alley when he moves his front out to the building line, or to abandon it, and close it up. Therefore, in extending the alley he has a right to build over the extension of the alley to the exclusion of the grantee, who has no ground to complain.</p>